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...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Business associate" means a person with whom a member of the general assembly is conducting or undertaking a financial transaction. (2) "Contribution" has the same meaning as in section 3517.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "Employee" does not include a member of the general assembly whose nonlegislative position of employment does not involve the performance of or the authority to per...

...(A) The appropriate ethics commission shall receive and may initiate complaints against persons subject to this chapter concerning conduct alleged to be in violation of this chapter or section 2921.42 or 2921.43 of the Revised Code. All complaints except those by the commission shall be by affidavit made on personal knowledge, subject to the penalties of perjury. Complaints by the commission shall be by affidav...

...No member, employee, or agent of the Ohio ethics commission, board of commissioners on grievances and discipline of the supreme court, or joint legislative ethics committee shall divulge any information or any books, papers, or documents presented to the commission, joint legislative ethics committee, or board of commissioners on grievances and discipline without the consent, in writing, of the appropriate ethics com...

...(A)(1) Subject to division (A)(2) of this section, the board of commissioners on grievances and discipline of the supreme court and the joint legislative ethics committee may recommend legislation relating to ethics, conflicts of interest, and financial disclosure and shall render advisory opinions with regard to questions concerning these matters for persons for whom it is the appropriate ethics commission. (2) Th...

...(A) The secretary of state and the county board of elections shall furnish, to each candidate for elective office who is required to file a financial disclosure statement by section 102.02 of the Revised Code, a financial disclosure form, and shall notify the appropriate ethics commission, within fifteen days of the name of the candidate, and of the subsequent withdrawal, disqualification, or death of the candidate. ...

...(A) Whoever violates division (C) of section 102.02 or division (C) of section 102.031 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (B) Whoever violates division (D) of section 102.02 or section 102.021, 102.03, 102.04, or 102.07 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (C) In addition to the penalty provided in division (B) of this section, whoever violates divi...

...(A) The annual salaries of the chief justice of the supreme court and of the justices and judges named in this section payable from the state treasury are as follows: (1) For the chief justice of the supreme court, the following amounts effective in the following years: (a) Beginning January 1, 2018, one hundred seventy-four thousand seven hundred dollars; (b) Beginning January 1, 2019, one hundred eighty-th...

...Each judge of the court of common pleas and each judge of the probate court shall receive an annual compensation equal to eighteen cents per capita for the population of the county in which the judge resided when elected or appointed, as ascertained by the latest federal census of the United States. The annual compensation shall not be less than three thousand five hundred dollars nor more than fourteen thousand doll...

...A member of the current general assembly, or a person who was a member of the current or previous general assembly, who is appointed to fill the unexpired term of office of the chief justice or a justice of the supreme court or of any judge shall receive compensation for the balance of that unexpired term at the rate that was in effect for that office on the last day of the general assembly prior to the one dur...

...In addition to the annual salary and expenses provided for in sections 141.04 and 141.05 of the Revised Code, each judge of the probate court, and of the juvenile court, while holding court in a county in which the judge does not reside, by assignment of the chief justice of the supreme court under section 2101.37, 2101.39, or 2151.07 of the Revised Code, and each judge of the common pleas court while holding court i...

...The chief justice of the supreme court shall receive the actual and necessary expenses incurred while performing official duties under the law and the constitution in determining the disqualification or disability of any judge of the court of common pleas or of the court of appeals, to be paid from the state treasury upon the warrant of the director of budget and management.

...(A) In addition to the annual salary and expenses provided for in sections 141.04 and 2501.15 of the Revised Code, each judge of a court of appeals who holds court in a county in which the judge does not reside shall receive the judge's actual and necessary expenses incurred while so holding court. Those expenses shall be paid by the treasurer of state upon the warrant of the director of budget and management. ...

...(A) A judge of a court of appeals who is directed or assigned to sit with the justices of the supreme court shall be paid all his actual and necessary expenses incurred while sitting or performing any duty incident to the sitting, including expenses incurred in going from his place of residence to the supreme court and in returning from the supreme court. Those expenses shall be paid from funds appropriated for the s...

...The compensation of all employees in the classified service of the state shall be uniform for positions within the same service, group, and grade as established by the classifications of said service as at any time made by the rules of the director of administrative services, provided a rate of compensation for such service, group, and grade has been fixed by the general assembly, except that the compensation of pers...

...(A) Any voluntarily retired judge, or any judge who is retired under Section 6 of Article IV, Ohio Constitution, may be assigned with the judge's consent, by the chief justice or acting chief justice of the supreme court, to active duty as a judge. While so serving, the judge shall be paid, from money appropriated for this purpose, the established compensation for such office, computed on a per diem basis, in additio...

...The right of an individual to a benefit under this chapter shall not be subject to execution, garnishment, attachment, the operation of bankruptcy or insolvency laws, or other process of law whatsoever, and shall be unassignable except as specifically provided in this chapter and sections 3105.171, 3105.65, and 3115.32 and Chapters 3119., 3121., 3123., and 3125. of the Revised Code.

...No company created under and by virtue of the laws of this state or of any other state or country, having and operating a railroad in this state, shall establish, maintain, or assist in establishing or maintaining a relief association or society, the rules or bylaws of which require a person or employee becoming a member of such association or society to enter into an agreement or stipulation, directly or indirectly,...

...No railroad company owning and operating, or operating, a railroad shall adopt or promulgate a rule or regulation for the government of its servants or employees, or make or enter into an agreement with a person engaged in or about to engage in its service, in which such employee in any manner promises or agrees to hold such company harmless on account of an injury he may receive by reason of accident to, breakage, ...

...No railroad company shall, directly or indirectly, compel or require an employee to join any company or association, withhold any part of an employee's wages or salary for the payment of dues or assessments in any society or organization, or demand or require either as a condition precedent to securing employment or being employed. Such railroad company shall not discharge an employee because he refuses or neglects t...

...No railroad company, insurance society or association, or other person shall demand, accept, or enter into an agreement or stipulation with a person in or about to enter the employ of a railroad company whereby he stipulates or agrees to surrender or waive any right to damages against a railroad company thereafter arising for personal injury or death, or whereby he agrees to surrender or waive, in case he asserts suc...

...All rules, regulations, stipulations, and agreements, declared unlawful by sections 4973.02 to 4973.04, inclusive, of the Revised Code, are void. A corporation, association, or person violating, or aiding or abetting the violation of such sections shall forfeit to the person thus wronged or deprived of his rights, not less than fifty nor over five hundred dollars for each offense, to be recovered by a civil action.

...No railroad company knowingly or negligently shall use or operate a car or locomotive that is defective, or upon which the machinery or attachments belonging to such car or locomotive are in any manner defective. If an employee of such company receives injury by reason of a defect in a car or locomotive, or the machinery or attachments belonging to such car or locomotive, owned and operated or being operated by such...

...In all actions against a railroad company, operating a railroad in whole or part within this state, for personal injury to an employee or where such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that he was guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery when such negligence was slight and that of the employer greater in comparison. But the damages must be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount...

...No person or company operating a railroad in whole or in part in this state, directly or by or through a representative, shall knowingly suffer or permit a person to run or in any capacity to operate a railroad locomotive on any part of its railroad in this state who is intoxicated or in the habit of becoming intoxicated, or knowingly continue the employment of a person in such capacity after he becomes or is intoxic...

...No company operating a railroad over thirty miles in length or an interurban railroad or street railway over four miles in length shall permit a conductor, engineer, fireman, brakeman, or trainman on a train, a telegraph operator, or a conductor or motorman on a street railway, who has worked as such for fifteen consecutive hours, again to go on duty or perform work until he has had at least eight hours' rest, excep...