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...Nothing in sections 4731.861 to 4731.8611 of the Revised Code may be construed to prohibit a person from pursuing any other remedies provided in the Revised Code for an assisted reproduction procedure performed without consent.

...It is declared to be against the public policy of this state for a health care professional or affiliated person to enter into or require a waiver or provision with any patient or other person that limits or waives any of the patient's or other person's claims under section 4731.861, 4731.862, 4731.864, or 4731.865 of the Revised Code or remedies under section 4731.869 or 4731.8610 of the Revised Code. Any such provi...

...A physician who has established a protocol that meets the requirements of section 4729.284 of the Revised Code and the rules adopted under that section may authorize one or more pharmacists to use the protocol for the purpose of dispensing nicotine replacement therapy under section 4729.284 of the Revised Code.

...(A) No private hospital, private hospital director, or governing board of a private hospital is required to permit an abortion. (B) No public hospital, public hospital director, or governing board of a public hospital is required to permit an abortion. (C) Refusal to permit an abortion is not grounds for civil liability nor a basis for disciplinary or other recriminatory action. (D) No person is required to perfor...

...on 3701.07 of the Revised Code. (B) A physician who performs or attempts an abortion in an ambulatory surgical facility or other location that is not a hospital and in which a child is born alive shall immediately take the following steps upon the child's birth: (1) Provide post-birth care to the newborn in accordance with prevailing and acceptable standards of care; (2) Call for assistance from an emergency me...

...(A) As used in this section, "physician" means an individual authorized under this chapter to practice medicine and surgery, osteopathic medicine and surgery, or podiatric medicine and surgery. (B)(1) Subject to division (B)(2) of this section, and notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or rule adopted by the state medical board, a physician may do either of the following without having examined an individua...

...(A) As used in this section, "physician" means an individual authorized under this chapter to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery. (B)(1) Notwithstanding any conflicting provision of this chapter or rule adopted by the state medical board, a physician may issue a prescription for or personally furnish a complete or partial supply of a drug to treat chlamydia, gonorrhea, or trichomonia...

...The state medical board shall comply with section 4776.20 of the Revised Code.

... section 4731.961 of the Revised Code, "physician" means an individual authorized under this chapter to practice medicine and surgery, osteopathic medicine and surgery, or podiatric medicine and surgery. (B)(1) Subject to division (B)(2) of this section, and notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or rule adopted by the state medical board, a physician may do either of the following without having examined an...

...A physician who has established a protocol that meets the requirements specified by the state board of pharmacy in rules adopted under section 4729.47 of the Revised Code may authorize one or more pharmacists and any of the pharmacy interns supervised by the pharmacist or pharmacists to use the protocol for the purpose of dispensing epinephrine under section 4729.47 of the Revised Code.

...f a disease or medical condition. (5) "Physician" means an individual authorized by this chapter to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery. (6) "Terminal condition" means any of the following conditions, if irreversible, incurable, and untreatable through a method of treatment approved by the United States food and drug administration: (a) A progressive form of cancer; (b) A progressive...

...In the absence of fraud or bad faith, the state medical board, a current or former board member, an agent of the board, a person formally requested by the board to be the board's representative, an employee of the board, or a provider of educational and assessment services selected by the board for the quality intervention program shall not be held liable in damages to any person as the result of any act, omission, p...

...(A) Whoever violates section 4731.41, 4731.43, or 4731.60 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree on a first offense and a felony of the fourth degree on each subsequent offense. (B) Whoever violates section 4731.49, 4731.50, or 4731.81 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree on a first offense and a misdemeanor of the first degree on each subsequent offense. (C) ...

...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...

...egligence of such company or any of its officers or employees, in addition to other liability, it shall be held that every person in the employ of such company, with actual power or authority to direct or control another employee is not the fellow servant, but superior of such other employee. Every person in the employ of such company who has charge or control of employees in a separate branch or department is to be...

...ss or negligence of any other employee, officer, or agent of such company, in the discharge of or for failure to discharge his duties as 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...

...nager, general superintendent, or other officer in charge of operation. An offense on any calendar day and as to any car is a separate and distinct offense from a violation on any other such day. The prosecuting attorneys of the various counties shall prosecute violations of this section.