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...irectors may elect a chairperson of the board who shall be a director. Unless otherwise provided in the articles or regulations or in a resolution of the directors, the chairperson of the board is not an officer of the corporation. (B) The court of common pleas of the county in which a corporation maintains its principal office may, pursuant to division (A) of section 1701.911 of the Revised Code, order the appointm...

...(A) Except where the law, the articles, or the regulations require action to be authorized or taken by shareholders, all of the authority of a corporation shall be exercised by or under the direction of its directors. For their own government, the directors may adopt bylaws that are not inconsistent with the articles or the regulations. The selection of a time frame for the achievement of corporate goals shall be the...

...(A)(1) Upon the adoption of any amendment or amended articles, a certificate containing a copy of the resolution adopting the amendment or amended articles, a statement of the manner of its adoption, and, in the case of adoption of the resolution by the incorporators or directors, a statement of the basis for such adoption, shall be filed with the secretary of state, and thereupon the articles shall be amended ...

...(A) A copy of the articles or amended articles filed in the office of the secretary of state, certified by the secretary of state, shall be conclusive evidence, except as against the state, that the corporation has been incorporated under the laws of this state. A copy duly certified by the secretary of state of any certificate of amendment or other certificate filed in the secretary of state's office shall be prima-...

...(A) No officer, director, employee, or agent of a corporation shall, either alone or with another or others, with intent to deceive: (1) Make, issue, deliver, publish, or send by mail or by any other means of communication any prospectus, report, circular, certificate, statement, balance sheet, exhibit, or document, respecting the shares, assets, liabilities, capital, business, dividends or distributions, earnings,...

...(A) Any person, singly or jointly with others, and without regard to residence, domicile, or state of incorporation, may form a corporation by signing and filing with the secretary of state articles of incorporation, which shall set forth the following: (1) The name of the corporation; (2) The place in this state where the principal office of the corporation is to be located; (3) The purpose or purposes for which ...

...(A) Except as provided in this section and in sections 1702.41 and 1702.411 of the Revised Code, the secretary of state shall not accept for filing in the secretary of state's office any articles if the corporate name set forth in the articles is not distinguishable upon the secretary of state's records from any of the following: (1) The name of any other corporation, whether a nonprofit corporation or a business c...

... 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) twenty-five of the voting members, unless the articles o...

...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) Except where the law, the articles, or the regulations require that action be otherwise authorized or taken, all of the authority of a corporation shall be exercised by or under the direction of its directors. For their own government, the directors may adopt bylaws that are not inconsistent with the articles or the regulations. (B) A director shall perform the director's duties as a director, including the du...

...(A) The articles may be amended from time to time in any respect if the articles as amended set forth all the provisions that are required in, and only those provisions that may properly be in, original articles filed at the time of adopting the amendment, other than with respect to the initial directors, except that a public benefit corporation shall not amend its articles in such manner that it will cease to be a p...

... to be signed by the chairperson of the board of directors, the president, or a vice-president and by the secretary or an assistant secretary. The agreement of merger or consolidation shall be approved or otherwise authorized by or on behalf of each other constituent entity in accordance with the laws under which it exists. (3) The agreement of merger or consolidation shall set forth all of the following: (a) The...

...(A) A corporation may be dissolved judicially and its affairs wound up: (1) By an order of the supreme court or of a court of appeals in an action in quo warranto brought as provided by sections 2733.02 to 2733.39 of the Revised Code, in which event the court may order the affairs of the corporation to be wound up by its directors as in the case of voluntary dissolution, or by proceedings in, and under the order of,...

...(A) A copy of the articles or amended articles filed in the office of the secretary of state, certified by the secretary of state, shall be conclusive evidence, except as against the state, that the corporation has been incorporated under the laws of this state; and a copy duly certified by the secretary of state of any certificate of amendment or other certificate filed in the secretary of state's office shall be pr...

...(A) No officer, director, employee, or agent of a corporation shall, either alone or with another or others, with intent to deceive: (1) Make, issue, deliver, transmit by mail, or publish any prospectus, report, circular, certificate, statement, balance sheet, exhibit, or document, respecting membership rights in, or the activities, assets, liabilities, earnings, or accounts of, a corporation, that is false in any m...

...(A) Except as provided in sections 1702.01 to 1702.58 of the Revised Code, the provisions of those sections shall apply only to domestic corporations, and except as otherwise provided in this section, the provisions of those sections shall apply to all domestic corporations, whether formed under those sections or under previous laws of this state. (B) Special provisions in the Revised Code for the organization, cond...

...(A) Every nonprofit corporation, incorporated under the general corporation laws of this state, or previous laws, or under special provisions of the Revised Code, or created before September 1, 1851, which corporation has expressedly or impliedly elected to be governed by the laws passed since that date, and whose articles or other documents are filed with the secretary of state, shall file with the secretary of stat...

...A foreign corporation shall file a certificate of amendment with the secretary of state if, in amending its articles of incorporation, it modifies any of the information included in either its application for a license to transact business in this state or any amendment to that application. The certificate of amendment shall describe the modification of information, include a statement of its adoption together with a...

...No foreign nonprofit corporation shall exercise its corporate privileges in this state in a continual course of transactions until it has first procured from the secretary of state a certificate authorizing it to do so. Before issuing such certificate, the secretary of state shall require such foreign corporation to file in the secretary of state's office a certificate of good standing or subsistence, setting forth...

...(A) Any foreign corporation may register its corporate name, if its corporate name is available for use under division (D) of section 1703.04 of the Revised Code, by filing in the office of the secretary of state an application, on a form prescribed by the secretary of state, that contains the following information: (1) The exact corporate name to be registered; (2) The complete address of the principal office of t...

...As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (A) "Corporation," "domestic corporation," "foreign corporation," "state," "articles," "shareholder," "person," "principal office," "express terms," "treasury shares," "parent corporation," "parent," "subsidiary corporation," "subsidiary," "combination," "transferee corporation," "majority share acquisition," "acquiring corporation," "voting shar...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Articles of organization" means the articles of organization described in section 1706.16 of the Revised Code, and those articles of organization as amended or restated. (B) "Assignment" means a transfer, conveyance, deed, bill of sale, lease, mortgage, security interest, encumbrance, gift, or transfer by operation of law. (C) "Constituent limited liability company" means a constit...

...(A) The name of a limited liability company shall contain the words "limited liability company" or the abbreviation "L.L.C.," "LLC," "limited," "ltd.," or "ltd". (B) Except as provided in this section and in sections 1701.75, 1701.78, 1701.82, 1705.36, and 1705.37 of the Revised Code, the secretary of state shall not accept for filing in the secretary of state's office the articles of organization of a limited liab...

...of or regulated by a public commission, board, or officer of the United States, or of Canada, or of any state, province, or municipal corporation in either of such countries. Equipment-trust securities based on chattel mortgages, leases, or agreements for conditional sale, of cars, locomotives, motor trucks, or other rolling stock or of motor vehicles mortgaged, leased, or sold to, or finished for the use of, a publi...

...As used in sections 1707.05 to 1707.058 of the Revised Code: (A) "OhioInvests issuer" means an entity organized under the laws of this state, other than a general partnership, that meets all of the following requirements: (1) The entity satisfies the requirements of 17 C.F.R. 230.147A. (2) The entity meets at least one of the following conditions: (a) The principal office of the entity is located in this stat...