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...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, this chapter applies to all associations, whether organized under this chapter prior to the effective date of this section or on or after that date. (B) Any law that is in conflict with this chapter shall be construed as not applying to associations provided for in this chapter.

...(A) Whoever violates section 1729.04 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than twenty-five hundred dollars for each offense. (B) Whoever violates division (A) of section 1729.68 or commits an unfair marketing practice as defined in section 1729.69 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than five thousand dollars for each offense.

...As used in this chapter: (A)(1) "Basic health care services" means the following services when medically necessary: (a) Physician's services, except when such services are supplemental under division (B) of this section; (b) Inpatient hospital services; (c) Outpatient medical services; (d) Emergency health services; (e) Urgent care services; (f) Diagnostic laboratory services and diagnostic and therapeu...

...(A) Notwithstanding any law in this state to the contrary, any corporation, as defined in section 1751.01 of the Revised Code, may apply to the superintendent of insurance for a certificate of authority to establish and operate a health insuring corporation. If the corporation applying for a certificate of authority is a foreign corporation domiciled in a state without laws similar to those of this chapter, the...

...) 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 Ti...

...(A) Except as provided by division (D) of this section, upon the receipt by the superintendent of insurance of a complete application for a certificate of authority to establish or operate a health insuring corporation, which application sets forth or is accompanied by the information and documents required by division (A) of section 1751.03 of the Revised Code, the superintendent shall review the application and acc...

...(A) The superintendent of insurance shall issue or deny a certificate of authority to a health insuring corporation filing an application pursuant to section 1751.03 of the Revised Code, one hundred thirty-five days from the superintendent's receipt of a complete application and accompanying documents. (B) A certificate of authority shall be issued upon payment of the application fee prescribed in secti...

...Upon obtaining a certificate of authority as required under this chapter, a health insuring corporation may do all of the following: (A) Enroll individuals and their dependents in either of the following circumstances: (1) The individual resides or lives in the approved service area. (2) The individual's place of employment is located in the approved service area. (B) Contract with providers and health care facil...

...Any trustee, director, officer, or employee of a health insuring corporation who receives, collects, disburses, or invests funds in connection with the activities of the health insuring corporation shall be responsible for such funds in a fiduciary relationship to the corporation.

...(A) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter or Title XXXIX of the Revised Code, provisions of Title XXXIX of the Revised Code shall not be applicable to any health insuring corporation holding a certificate of authority under this chapter. This division shall not apply to an insurer licensed and regulated pursuant to Title XXXIX of the Revised Code except with respect to its health insuring corporat...

...(A) Every subscriber of a health insuring corporation is entitled to an evidence of coverage for the health care plan under which health care benefits are provided. (B) Every subscriber of a health insuring corporation that offers basic health care services is entitled to an identification card or similar document that specifies the health insuring corporation's name as stated in its articles of incorporation, and...

...(A)(1) This section applies to both of the following: (a) A health insuring corporation that issues or requires the use of a standardized identification card or an electronic technology for submission and routing of prescription drug claims pursuant to a policy, contract, or agreement for health care services; (b) A person or entity that a health insuring corporation contracts with to issue a standardized id...

...(A)(1) No contractual periodic prepayment and no premium rate for nongroup and conversion policies for health care services, or any amendment to them, may be used by any health insuring corporation at any time until the contractual periodic prepayment and premium rate, or amendment, have been filed with the superintendent of insurance, and shall not be effective until the expiration of sixty days after their fi...

...(A)(1)(a) A health insuring corporation shall, either directly or indirectly, enter into contracts for the provision of health care services with a sufficient number and types of providers and health care facilities to ensure that all covered health care services will be accessible to enrollees from a contracted provider or health care facility. (b) A health insuring corporation shall not refuse to contract w...

...(A) Notwithstanding section 3901.71 of the Revised Code, any policy, contract, or agreement for health care services authorized by this chapter that is issued, delivered, or renewed in this state and that provides that coverage of an unmarried dependent child will terminate upon attainment of the limiting age for dependent children specified in the policy, contract, or agreement, shall also provide in substance both ...

...A health insuring corporation shall provide coverage, in accordance with the terms of the contract, for a subscriber's dependent children living outside the health insuring corporation's approved service area if a court order requires the subscriber to provide health care coverage to the dependent children.

...(A)(1) No health insuring corporation shall cancel or fail to renew the coverage of a subscriber or enrollee because of any health status-related factor in relation to the subscriber or enrollee, the subscriber's or enrollee's requirements for health care services, or for any other reason designated under rules adopted by the superintendent of insurance. (2) Unless otherwise required by state or federal law, no hea...

...(A) A health insuring corporation shall establish and maintain a complaint system that has been approved by the superintendent of insurance to provide adequate and reasonable procedures for the expeditious resolution of written complaints initiated by subscribers or enrollees concerning any matter relating to services provided, directly or indirectly, by the health insuring corporation, including, but not limited to,...

...(A) No health insuring corporation, or agent, employee, or representative of a health insuring corporation, shall use any advertisement or solicitation document, or shall engage in any activity, that is unfair, untrue, misleading, or deceptive. (B) No health insuring corporation shall use a name that is deceptively similar to the name or description of any insurance or surety corporation doing business in thi...

...(A) A peer review committee of a hospital or other health care facility or provider, or of an intermediary organization or health delivery network, with which a health insuring corporation has a contract for health care services may provide to a peer review committee of the health insuring corporation any information, documents, testimony, or other records relating to any matter that is the subject of evaluation or r...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the funds of a health insuring corporation shall be invested only in securities or other investments or assets that constitute permissible investments under section 1751.26 or 3925.08 of the Revised Code. (B) A health insuring corporation may seek permission from the superintendent of insurance to invest funds under Chapter 3906. of the Revised Code and ...

...(A) For purposes of this section, real estate used for "the accommodation of the health insuring corporation's business operations" includes the health insuring corporation's home office, branch office, medical facilities, and field office operations. (B) No health insuring corporation shall purchase, hold, or convey real estate, or any interest in real estate, to be used as an investment for the production of incom...

...(A) Each health insuring corporation holding a certificate of authority to operate in this state shall have deposited securities with the superintendent of insurance or an approved custodian in the amount required by this division. (1) Each health insuring corporation authorized to provide basic health care services shall maintain a deposit of not less than two hundred fifty thousand dollars. (2) Each health insuri...

...(A) Each health insuring corporation that provides coverage to medicaid recipients shall post a performance bond in the amount of three million dollars as security to fulfill the obligations of the health insuring corporation to pay claims of contracted providers for covered health care services provided to medicaid recipients. The bond shall be payable to the department of insurance in the event that the healt...

...(A)(1) Every health insuring corporation authorized to provide basic health care services, which health insuring corporation is not a provider sponsored organization, shall maintain total admitted assets equal to at least one hundred ten per cent of the liabilities of the corporation. However, at no time shall the corporation's net worth be less than one million two hundred thousand dollars. (2) Every health insuri...

...f this section shall pay the full gross profit to the charitable instant bingo organization, in return for the deal of instant bingo tickets. The owner or lessor may retain the money that the owner or lessor receives for selling the instant bingo tickets, provided, however, that after the deal has been sold, the owner or lessor shall pay to the charitable instant bingo organization the value of any unredeemed instant...

...23.42 of the Revised Code, and derives profits or other proceeds from the offense or act, the court that imposes sentence or an order of disposition upon the offender or delinquent child, in lieu of any fine that the court is otherwise authorized or required to impose, may impose upon the offender or delinquent child a fine of not more than twice the gross profits or other proceeds so derived. (B) Notwithstan...

...felony drug abuse offense, and derives profits or other proceeds from the offense or act, the court that imposes sentence or an order of disposition upon the offender or delinquent child, in lieu of any fine that the court is otherwise authorized or required to impose, may impose upon the offender or delinquent child a fine of not more than twice the gross profits or other proceeds so derived. (B) Notwithstan...

...n: (i) "Position of honor, trust, or profit" has the same meaning as in section 2929.192 of the Revised Code. (ii) "Public office" means any elected federal, state, or local government office in this state. (b) For purposes of division (C)(2)(c) of this section, a violation of section 2923.32 of the Revised Code or any other violation or offense that includes as an element a course of conduct or the occurren...

...aintained in the recovery of offender's profits fund and if there is no further requirement to pay money or the monetary value of property into the fund pursuant to section 2969.02 of the Revised Code, unless otherwise ordered by a court of record in which a judgment has been rendered against the offender or the representatives of the offender and, if money in the separate account was obtained from a member of the fa...

... of state to the recovery of offender's profits fund, which is hereby created in the state treasury. Except as provided in division (A) of section 2969.04 of the Revised Code, any interest earned on the money in the fund shall be credited to the fund.

...and the income therefrom, including any profit made on the sale thereof, shall at all times be free from taxation within the state.

...r the corporation or association is for profit or nonprofit, for that corporation or association to provide the services described in this section and for the county to pay for those contracted services with the proceeds of that tax levy, if the proceeds from that tax levy are used only for the purpose or purposes for which the tax was levied. Services for which a contract may be entered into under this section are a...

...g costs and reserve shall be considered profits. All profits from the commissary fund shall be used to purchase supplies and equipment for the benefit of persons incarcerated in the center and to pay salary and benefits for employees of the center, or for any other persons, who work in or are employed for the sole purpose of providing service to the commissary. The corrections commission shall adopt rules and regulat...

...fice, hold any other office of trust or profit or be an employee or officer of any public or private elementary or secondary school. Before entering on the duties of office, each member shall subscribe to the official oath of office. Each member of the state board of education shall be paid a salary fixed pursuant to division (J) of section 124.15 of the Revised Code, together with the member's actual and necessary...

...st, direct or indirect, in the gains or profits of any investment made by the board nor as such, directly or indirectly, receive any pay or emolument for his services. No trustee or employee of the said board, directly or indirectly, for himself or as an agent or partner of others, shall borrow any of its funds or deposits or use the same except to make such current and necessary payments as are authorized by the boa...

...st, direct or indirect, in the gains or profits of any investment made by the board nor as such, directly or indirectly, receive any pay or emolument for his services. No trustee or employee of the said board, directly or indirectly, for himself or as an agent or partner of others, shall borrow any of its funds or deposits or use the same except to make such current and necessary payments as are authorized by the boa...

...services to that community school at no profit to the sponsor. (3) If the sponsor of a community school is a state university, as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code, the sponsor may sell services to that community school at no profit to the sponsor.

...egate amount of moneys from the lottery profits education fund, and not from other sources, that are pledged to pay bond service charges on obligations issued to provide moneys for the school building program assistance fund shall not exceed ten million dollars. As used in this section, "other sources" includes the annual investment income on special funds to the extent the income will be available for payment of an...

...ool to any person or group for use in a profit-making plan or activity. Notwithstanding division (B)(4) of section 149.43 of the Revised Code, a person may require disclosure of the requestor's identity or the intended use of the directory information concerning any students attending a public school to ascertain whether the directory information is for use in a profit-making plan or activity. (B) No person s...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "For-profit private college" means a career college in this state that holds a certificate of registration from the chancellor of higher education under Chapter 3332. of the Revised Code or a private institution exempt from regulation under Chapter 3332. of the Revised Code as prescribed in section 3333.046 of the Revised Code. (2) "State institution of higher education" has the sam...

...ational institution, the rents, issues, profits, and income of which are used exclusively for the use, endowment, or support of such institution, shall be exempted from taxation so long as such property or the rents, issues, profits, or income thereof is used for and exclusively applied to the endowment or support of such institution.

...g costs and reserve shall be considered profits. (3) All profits from the commissary fund shall be used for the following: (a) To purchase supplies and equipment, and to provide life skills training and education or treatment services, or both, for the benefit of persons incarcerated in the jail; (b) To pay salary and benefits for employees of the sheriff who work in or are employed for the purpose of provid...

...ata or use that information or data for profit. (2) The secretary of state shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that establish, by mutual agreement with the bureau of motor vehicles, the content and format of the information and data the bureau of motor vehicles shall provide to the secretary of state under division (B)(1) of this section and the frequency with which the bureau shall provide th...

... section: (1) "Free clinic" means a nonprofit organization exempt from federal income taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," as amended, or a program component of a nonprofit organization, to which both of the following apply: (a) Its primary mission is to provide health care services for free or for a minimal administrative fee to individuals with limited resources. (b) It facili...

...nditures from 340B drug pricing program profits, including all programs, services, and equipment funded or purchased with those profits. (C) The department of health shall post the information in the reports required under this section on its public web site.

... 3727.01 of the Revised Code. (5) "Nonprofit clinic" means a charitable nonprofit corporation organized and operated pursuant to Chapter 1702. of the Revised Code, or any charitable organization not organized and not operated for profit, that provides health care services to indigent and uninsured persons, as defined in section 2305.234 of the Revised Code, or to underinsured persons, as defined in rules adopted un...

...nistered by a public agency, employees' profit-sharing fund or employees' profit-sharing trust, any association engaged, as a substantial part of its business or operations, in purchasing or holding securities, including a hedge fund, mutual fund, or private equity fund, or any trust in respect of which a bank is trustee or cotrustee, investment company registered under the "Investment Company Act of 1940," 15 U.S.C....

...muneration for services or any share of profits, income, or accruals on the licensee's investment in the casino facility; or (c) Fining a licensee or other person according to the penalties adopted by the commission. (4) An order may be judicially reviewed under section 119.12 of the Revised Code. (B) Without in any manner limiting the authority of the commission to impose the level and type of discipline th...

...racts of any kind promising returns and profits as an inducement to insurance. (F) Except as provided in section 3901.213 of the Revised Code, making or permitting any unfair discrimination among individuals of the same class and equal expectation of life in the rates charged for any contract of life insurance or of life annuity or in the dividends or other benefits payable thereon, or in any other of the terms and...