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...encies for carrying on their respective businesses. Agricultural cooperatives, acting singly or collectively, may meet in conference with two or more purchasers of their products who are acting collectively, and may at the conference fix by agreement the prices to be paid by the purchasers to the agricultural cooperative for the products. Such concerted action by the purchasers is not a contract in restraint of trade...

... to foreign corporations desiring to do business in this state. All contracts that could be made by any association incorporated under this chapter and that are made by or with such foreign associations, shall be enforceable in this state with all of the remedies set forth in this chapter.

...An association may organize, form, operate, own, control, have an interest in, own stock of, or be a member of any other cooperative, corporation, or other form of organization.

...Any exemptions under any law applying to agricultural products in the possession or under the control of the individual producer also shall apply to such products delivered by its producer members, as long as such products are in the possession or under the control of an agricultural cooperative.

...Membership stock and patronage stock of a cooperative are not to be considered securities under Chapter 1707. of the Revised Code.

...(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.

...ancial institution qualified to conduct business in this state, a subsidiary corporation that is wholly owned by a financial institution qualified to conduct business in this state, and a mortgage lender whose regular business is originating, servicing, or brokering real estate loans and who is qualified to do business in this state. (G) "Loan" means any extension of credit or other form of financing or indebtednes...

...he department of aging for the resident services coordinator program as established in section 173.08 of the Revised Code. (4) Of all current year appropriation authority for the fund, not more than five per cent shall be used for administration. (5) Not less than forty-five per cent of the funds awarded during any one fiscal year shall be for grants and loans to nonprofit organizations under section 174.03 of th...

...ation and that is supported by a social service agency where the housing project is located. Activities for which grants, loans, loan guarantees, and loan subsidies may be made under this section include all of the following: (1) Acquiring, financing, constructing, leasing, rehabilitating, remodeling, improving, and equipping publicly or privately owned housing; (2) Providing supportive services related to hous...

...(A) The department of development shall make an annual determination of the median income for persons in each county. (B) The director of development shall determine appropriate income limits for identifying or classifying low- and moderate-income persons for the purposes of sections 174.01 to 174.07 of the Revised Code. In making the determination, the director shall take into consideration the amount of income ava...

... state fiscal year. (B) Annually, the Ohio housing finance agency shall submit a report to the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives describing the activities of the agency under sections 174.02, 174.03, and 174.05 of the Revised Code during the previous state fiscal year.

...the housing and other needs of homeless Ohioans; (4) Two members to represent counties or other local government entities; (5) One member to represent real estate brokers licensed under Chapter 4735. of the Revised Code. (6) A county recorder. (B)(1) Terms of office are for four years, with each term ending on the same day of the same month as did the term that it succeeds. Each member shall hold office from the ...

...nt, on its own and on the behalf of the Ohio housing finance agency and the Ohio department of aging, shall obtain controlling board approval prior to making any grant, loan, loan guarantee, or loan subsidy greater than fifty thousand dollars from or allocated from the low- and moderate-income housing trust fund.

...s the context otherwise requires: (A) "Business trust" means an unincorporated business association which is created by a trust instrument, pursuant to common law or enabling legislation, under which property is held, managed, administered, controlled, invested, reinvested, and operated, or under which business or professional activities, as permitted by the laws governing any profession, for profit are carried on, ...

...A business trust is hereby declared to be a permitted form of association for the conduct of business in this state. A business trust is a separate unincorporated legal entity, not a partnership, joint venture, joint-stock association, agency, or any other form of entity.

...No business trust shall be authorized to transact business in this state unless it complies with section 1746.04 of the Revised Code, except that a business trust that is transacting business in this state on the effective date of this section may continue to transact business in this state without complying with this chapter and, if it makes the filings described in section 1746.04 of the Revised Code, shall be deem...

...resent who is authorized to perform the services of a registered agent, including accepting service of process and other notifications for the person serving as a statutory agent. "Usual place of business" does not include a post office box, regardless of whether that post office box has an associated street address. (6) The irrevocable consent of the business trust to service of process upon its designated agent a...

...rd to residence or domicile, may form a business trust by signing a trust instrument which shall set forth: (1) The name of the business trust; (2) The place where the principal office of the business trust is to be located; (3) The purpose or purposes for which the business trust is formed, which may consist of a statement that the purpose, either alone or with other specified purposes, is to engage in any lawful...

...(A) No business trust that has made a filing pursuant to section 1746.04 of the Revised Code may use the words "Incorporated," "Corporation," "Inc.," "Co.," "Partnership," "Ltd.," or derivatives thereof in its name. (B) No business trust formed after the effective date of this chapter that has made a filing pursuant to section 1746.04 of the Revised Code shall assume the name of any corporation established under the...

...mmon or statutory law applicable to the business trust created by the instrument.

...ividual or entity may be a trustee of a business trust; any trustee may own shares, including all of the shares, of the business trust. (B) Unless otherwise set forth in the trust instrument, and notwithstanding section 1746.13 of the Revised Code, a trustee of a business trust that has made the filings described in section 1746.04 of the Revised Code shall be liable to the business trust, its shareholders, and its ...

...wise limited by the trust instrument, a business trust that has made the filings described in section 1746.04 of the Revised Code has the following general powers: (1) To make contracts, incur liabilities, lend or borrow money and to receive or give security therefor; to sell, mortgage, lease, pledge, exchange, convey, transfer, and otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property and assets; to issue bonds, not...

...(A) A business trust may take, hold, and dispose of any estate or interest in real or personal property in its business name, or in the name of one or more of its trustees, or in the name of one or more of its nominees. A conveyance to a business trust in its business name shall recite that the grantee is a business trust, and the estate or interest so acquired can be conveyed by the business trust only in its busine...

...or foreign corporations, with regard to service of process.