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...Any municipal corporation or other political subdivision, and all public agencies and commissions of the state notwithstanding any contrary law may lease, lend, grant, or convey to a bridge commission, at its request, upon such terms as the proper authorities of such municipal corporations, other political subdivisions, or public agencies and commissions of the state determines reasonable and fair, and without the ne...

...except agriculture, conducted for gain, profit, or income and extends to personal service occupations.

...ermine a limited liability company's nonprofit status, an entity is operating with a nonprofit purpose under section 1705.02 of the Revised Code or carrying on any nonprofit activity under section 1706.05 of the Revised Code if that entity is organized other than for the pecuniary gain or profit of, and its net earnings or any part of its net earnings are not distributable to, its members, its directors, its officers...

...There is hereby created the board of tax appeals, which shall exercise the following powers and perform the following duties: (A) Exercise the authority provided by law to hear and determine all appeals of questions of law and fact arising under the tax laws of this state in appeals from decisions, orders, determinations, or actions of any tax administrative agency established by the law of this state, including but...

...(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code that requires a taxpayer to provide a tax credit certificate to the tax commissioner upon the commissioner's request, any person claiming a credit against a tax or fee administered by the commissioner shall provide a copy of any accompanying certificate issued by the director of development services or by another state agency, if applicable, demonstrating th...

...The department of taxation shall keep its office in Columbus and shall provide suitable rooms, necessary office furniture, supplies, books, periodicals, and maps. All necessary expenses shall be audited and paid as are other expenses. The department may hold sessions at any place within the state. The department may establish as many branch offices in different parts of the state as are convenient for the purpose of...

...(A) Except as provided in divisions (B) and (C) of this section, no agent of the department of taxation, except in the agent's report to the department or when called on to testify in any court or proceeding, shall divulge any information acquired by the agent as to the transactions, property, or business of any person while acting or claiming to act under orders of the department. Whoever violates this provision sha...

...(A)(1) Any corporation whose articles of incorporation or license certificate to do or transact business in this state has been canceled by the secretary of state pursuant to section 5703.91 of the Revised Code shall be reinstated and entitled to exercise its rights, privileges, and franchises in this state, and the secretary of state shall cancel the entry of cancellation to exercise its rights, privileges, an...

...The board of county commissioners of each county shall establish a county developmental disabilities general fund. Notwithstanding section 5705.10 of the Revised Code, proceeds from levies under section 5705.222 and division (L) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code shall be deposited to the credit of the county developmental disabilities general fund. Accounts shall be established within the county developmental di...

...A municipal corporation may establish in the manner provided by law a sanitary police pension fund, an urban redevelopment tax increment equivalent fund, or a cemetery fund. A township may establish by law a cemetery fund. A subdivision that levies a tax for the purpose described in division (ZZ) or (AAA) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code shall establish a general capital and infrastructure fund to which the...

...(A) A taxing authority of a subdivision, by resolution or ordinance, may establish reserve balance accounts to accumulate currently available resources for the following purposes: (1) To stabilize subdivision budgets against cyclical changes in revenues and expenditures; (2) Except as otherwise provided by this section, to provide for the payment of claims and deductibles under an individual or joint self-insuran...

...(A)(1) A copy of any resolution adopted as provided in section 5705.19 or 5705.2111 of the Revised Code shall be certified by the taxing authority to the board of elections of the proper county not less than ninety days before the general election in any year, and the board shall submit the proposal to the electors of the subdivision at the succeeding November election. In the case of a qualifying library levy, the b...

...This section does not apply to a subdivision or taxing unit for which the county budget commission has waived the requirement to adopt a tax budget pursuant to section 5705.281 of the Revised Code. The tax budget shall present the following information: (A)(1) A statement of the necessary current operating expenses for the ensuing fiscal year for each department and division of the subdivision, classified as to per...

...(A) The county budget commission shall adjust the estimated amounts required from the general property tax for each fund, as shown by the tax budgets or other information required to be provided under section 5705.281 of the Revised Code, so as to bring the tax levies required therefor within the limitations specified in sections 5705.01 to 5705.47 of the Revised Code, for such levies. The commission may revise and a...

...In the case of any subdivision which issued refunding bonds as provided in volume 116, Part 2, Ohio Laws, page 57, sections 1 to 14, inclusive, whereby such subdivision has reduced the amount of the levy required to service its debt charges, the budget commission shall not, when acting under section 5705.32 of the Revised Code, reduce the operating levy of such subdivision below the amount which such subdivision has ...

...(A) This division does not apply to school district appropriation measures. On or about the first day of each fiscal year, the taxing authority of each subdivision or other taxing unit shall pass an appropriation measure, and thereafter during the year it may pass any supplemental appropriation measures as it finds necessary, based on the revised tax budget or the official certificate of estimated resources or amendm...

...No subdivision or taxing unit shall: (A) Make any appropriation of money except as provided in Chapter 5705. of the Revised Code; provided, that the authorization of a bond issue shall be deemed to be an appropriation of the proceeds of the bond issue for the purpose for which such bonds were issued, but no expenditure shall be made from any bond fund until first authorized by the taxing authority; (B)(1) Make a...

...(A) As used in this section, "qualifying contract" means any agreement for the expenditure of money under which aggregate payments from the funds included in the school district's three-year forecast under section 5705.391 of the Revised Code will exceed the lesser of the following amounts: (1) Five hundred thousand dollars; (2) One per cent of the total revenue to be credited in the current fiscal year to the ...

...In the case of an improvement, the cost of which is to be paid in whole or part by special assessments, a contract may be executed without an appropriation or certificate for that portion of the cost derived or to be derived from special assessments, provided that a resolution or ordinance authorizing such assessment and the bonds or notes to be issued in anticipation thereof has been passed in the manner provided by...

...Property of the kinds mentioned in this section, when used in business, shall be considered to arise out of business transacted in a state other than that in which the owner resides, under the circumstances following: (A) Accounts receivable resulting from the sale of property by an agent having an office in such other state or from a stock of goods maintained therein, or from services performed by an officer, agent...

...o public use and not held for pecuniary profit, owned by an adjoining state or any political subdivision or agency of such adjoining state, which would be exempt from taxation if owned by the state of Ohio or a political subdivision or agency thereof, shall be exempt from taxation providing that such adjoining state exempts from taxation real and personal property devoted to public use and not held for pecuniary prof...

...elonging to an institution that is a nonprofit corporation that receives a grant under the Thomas Alva Edison grant program authorized by division (C) of section 122.33 of the Revised Code at any time during the tax year and being held for leasing or resale to others. If, at any time during a tax year for which such property is exempted from taxation, the corporation ceases to qualify for such a grant, the director o...

...(A) After receiving an opinion from the director of environmental protection, the director of natural resources, or the director of development, the tax commissioner shall promptly ascertain if an application filed under section 5709.21 of the Revised Code shall be allowed or disallowed in whole or in part. The commissioner shall give written notice of the proposed finding to the applicant and the county auditor of t...

...As used in sections 5709.77 to 5709.81 of the Revised Code: (A) "Business day" means a day of the week excluding Saturday, Sunday, and a legal holiday as defined in section 1.14 of the Revised Code. (B) "Fund" means to provide for the payment of the debt service on and the expenses relating to an outstanding obligation of the county. (C) "Housing renovation" means a project carried out for residential purposes. (...

...(A) Upon determination by the board of county commissioners that such an issuance will be in the county's best interest, the board may, in the resolution adopted under section 5709.78 of the Revised Code, authorize the issuance of revenue bonds or notes to refund any general obligation bonds or notes, any mortgage revenue bonds or notes, or any revenue bonds issued prior to the effective date of the resolution to fin...

...agencies which are corporations not for profit, community chests, united funds, or other similar united community fund organizations.

...r the financing thereof, any income and profit from the investment of the proceeds of bonds or of any revenues, any fees and charges received by or on behalf of an issuer for the services of or commitments by the issuer, and moneys received in repayment of and for interest on any loan made or purchased by an issuer, moneys received by an issuer upon the sale of any bonds of the issuer under section 902.04 of the Revi...

...er income from the bonds, including any profit made on the sale thereof, are free from taxation within the state.

...nursery stock as a fund raiser for a nonprofit organization or nonprofit purpose for no more than two days per year, who is not a nurseryman, dealer, or collector, and who makes no more than two thousand dollars in revenue from the sale of nursery stock during a calendar year; (C) Any public or private arboretum operated not for profit, which exchanges inspected nursery stock in limited quantities for experimental o...

...ans a dog that has been trained by a nonprofit or for-profit special agency and that is one of the following: (a) A guide dog; (b) A hearing dog; (c) A service dog. (4) "Guide dog" means a dog that has been trained or is in training to assist a blind person. (5) "Hearing dog" means a dog that has been trained or is in training to assist a deaf or hearing-impaired person. (6) "Service dog" means a do...

...ans a dog that has been trained by a nonprofit or for-profit special agency and that is one of the following: (a) A guide dog; (b) A hearing dog; (c) A service dog. (4) "Guide dog" means a dog that has been trained or is in training to assist a blind person. (5) "Hearing dog" means a dog that has been trained or is in training to assist a deaf or hearing-impaired person. (6) "Service dog" means a do...

...l" means an establishment operating for profit that keeps, houses, and maintains dogs for the purpose of training the dogs in return for a fee or other consideration. (10) "Livestock" means horses, mules, and other equidae; cattle, sheep, goats, and other bovidae; swine and other suidae; poultry; alpacas; llamas; captive white-tailed deer; and any other animal that is raised or maintained domestically for food or f...

...duals, partnerships, corporations, both profit and nonprofit, and the state and any of its political subdivisions and their departments or agencies. (E) "Operation" means the use or operation, or both, of an amusement ride with riders. (F) "Rider" means any person who sits, stands, or is otherwise conveyed or carried as a passenger on an amusement ride, but does not include employees or agents of the owner of the...

...(A) Unless another form of notice is required by the articles, the regulations, the bylaws, or by applicable law, any notice required by this chapter shall be in writing and shall be delivered personally or sent by telegram, by the use of authorized communications equipment, or by United States mail, express mail, or courier service, with postage or fees prepaid. (B) In computing the period of time for the giving of...

...A corporation may be formed under this chapter for any purpose or purposes for which natural persons lawfully may associate themselves, except that when there is a special provision in the Revised Code for the formation thereunder of a designated class of corporations, a corporation of such class shall be formed thereunder.

...foundation, federation, or any other nonprofit corporation, society, organization, or association; (5) Any lawful provision for the purpose of defining, limiting, or regulating the exercise of the authority of the corporation, the incorporators, the directors, the officers, the members, or any class of members, or creating or defining rights and privileges of the members among themselves or in the property of the co...

... of any other corporation, whether a nonprofit corporation or a business corporation and whether that of a domestic or of a foreign corporation authorized to do business in this state; (2) The name of any limited liability company registered in the office of the secretary of state pursuant to Chapter 1705. or 1706. of the Revised Code, whether domestic or foreign; (3) The name of any limited liability partnership...

...) A domestic or foreign corporation, nonprofit corporation, limited liability company, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, limited partnership association, professional association, business trust, or unincorporated nonprofit association that has a business address in this state. If the agent is an entity other than a domestic corporation, the agent shall meet the requirements of Title XV...

...(A) When articles of incorporation and other certificates relating to the corporation are submitted to the secretary of state, the secretary of state shall, after finding that they comply with the provisions of this chapter, accept the articles and other certificates for filing and make a copy of the articles and other certificates by microfilm or by any authorized photostatic or digitized process. Evidence of the f...

...(A) When an unincorporated society or association, organized for any of the purposes for which a corporation could be formed under this chapter, authorizes the incorporation of that society or association, by the same procedure and affirmative vote of its voting members that the regulations, constitution, or other fundamental agreement of the society or association requires for an amendment to that fundamental agr...

...The fact that a religious society, ecclesiastical society, or church has been continuously in existence since January 1, 1925, claiming to have been legally incorporated as such, and exercising authority and performing duties as such during such time, shall be prima-facie evidence of the due incorporation as claimed by such organization.

...After the articles have been filed and at any time prior to a meeting of voting members, the incorporators or a majority of them, at a meeting, may adopt regulations for the government of the corporation, the conduct of its affairs, and the management of its property, consistent with law and the articles; may elect directors in addition to any directors named in the articles; and may also elect members in addition to...

...egulations of a corporation, another nonprofit corporation, a business corporation, a limited liability company, or any partnership, may become a member of the first mentioned corporation. (F) Whenever the number of members of a corporation that, under the law, the articles, or the regulations, must have a specified number of members, is reduced below the specified number, the corporation shall not be required becau...

...Where neither the articles nor the regulations provide for members thereof as such, or where a corporation has in fact no members other than the directors, the directors shall, for the purposes of any statute or rule of law relating to corporations, be taken to be the members of such corporation, and they shall have all the rights and privileges of members; except that where the provisions in this chapter relating ...

...Each corporation shall keep correct and complete books and records of account, together with minutes of the proceedings of its incorporators, members, directors, and committees of the directors or members. Subject to limitations prescribed in the articles or the regulations upon the right of members of a corporation to examine the books and records, all books and records of a corporation, including the membership r...

...An annual meeting of voting members for the election of directors and the consideration of reports to be laid before such meeting shall be held on a date designated by or in the manner provided for in the articles or the regulations. In the absence of such a designation, the annual meeting shall be held on the first Monday of the fourth month following the close of each fiscal year of the corporation. When the annua...

...(A) Meetings of voting members may be called by any of the following: (1) The chairperson of the board, the president, or, in case of the president's absence, death, or disability, the vice-president authorized to exercise the authority of the president; (2) The directors by action at a meeting, or a majority of the directors acting without a meeting; (3) The lesser of (a) ten per cent of the voting members or (b)...

...Unless the articles or the regulations provide for notice of meetings otherwise than as provided in this section, written notice stating the place, if any, and the time of a meeting and the means, if any, by which the voting members can be present and vote at the meeting through the use of authorized communications equipment, and, in case of a special meeting, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called, ...

...(A) Notice of the place, if any, the time, and the purposes of any meeting of voting members or directors, as the case may be, whether required by law, the articles, the regulations, or (in the case of directors) the bylaws, may be waived in writing, either before or after the holding of such meeting, by any member, or by any director, which writing shall be filed with or entered upon the records of the meeting. A ...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in the articles or the regulations, each member, regardless of class, shall be entitled to one vote on each matter properly submitted to the members for their vote, consent, waiver, release, or other action. (B) Unless the articles or the regulations provide otherwise, voting at elections and votes on other matters may be conducted by mail or by the use of authorized communications ...