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... (A) A person who is eighteen years of age or older may, during the person's lifetime, make a gift or transfer of a security, money, a life or endowment insurance policy, an annuity contract, a benefit plan, real estate, tangible or intangible personal property, or any other property to, may designate as beneficiary of a life or endowment insurance policy, an annuity contract, or a benefit plan, or make a transfer by...

... (A) A gift or transfer made in a manner prescribed in sections 5814.01 to 5814.10 of the Revised Code, is irrevocable and conveys to the minor indefeasibly vested legal title to the security, money, life or endowment insurance policy, annuity contract, benefit plan, real estate, tangible or intangible personal property, or other property given or, subject to the right of the owner of the policy, contract, or benefit...

... (A) The custodian shall collect, hold, manage, invest, and reinvest the custodial property. (B) The custodian shall pay over to the minor for expenditure by the minor, or expend for the use or benefit of the minor, as much of or all the custodial property as the custodian considers advisable for the use and benefit of the minor in the manner, at the time or times, and to the extent that the custodian in the custodi...

... (A) A custodian is entitled to reimbursement from the custodial property for reasonable expenses incurred in the performance of the custodian's duties. (B) A custodian may act without compensation for the custodian's services. (C) Unless the custodian is a donor or transferor, the custodian may receive from custodial property reasonable compensation for the custodian's services determined by one of the following s...

... An issuer, transfer agent, financial institution, broker, life insurance company, or other person acting on the instructions of or otherwise dealing with any person purporting to act as a donor or transferor or dealing with any person or trust company purporting to act as a custodian is not required to do any of the following: (A) Determine either of the following: (1) Whether the person or trust company designate...

... (A) Any person who is eighteen years of age or older or a trust company is eligible to become a successor custodian. A successor custodian has all the rights, powers, duties, and immunities of a custodian designated in a manner prescribed by sections 5814.01 to 5814.10 of the Revised Code. (B) A custodian may resign and designate the custodian's successor by doing all of the following: (1) Executing an instrumen...

... (A) The minor, if the minor has attained the age of fourteen years, or the legal representative of the minor, a member of the minor's family who is eighteen years of age or older, or a donor or transferor or the donor's or transferor's legal representative may petition the court for an accounting by the custodian or the custodian's legal representative. A successor custodian may petition the court for an accounting ...

... (A) Subject to the requirements and limitations of this section, the time for delivery to the minor of custodial property transferred under or pursuant to division (A) of section 5814.02 of the Revised Code may be delayed until a specified time after the minor attains the age of twenty-one years, which time shall be specified in the written instrument that makes or provides for the gift or transfer pursuant to divi...

... (A) Sections 5814.01 to 5814.10 of the Revised Code shall be construed to effectuate their general purpose to make uniform the law of those states that enact similar provisions. (B) Sections 5814.01 to 5814.10 of the Revised Code shall not be construed as providing an exclusive method for making gifts or transfers to minors. (C) Nothing in sections 5814.01 to 5814.10 of the Revised Code shall affect gifts made und...

...Except when the intent of the settlor clearly is to the contrary, the following rules of construction shall apply in interpreting the terms "inheritance" and "bequest": (A) The term "inheritance," in addition to its meaning at common law or under any other section or sections of the Revised Code, includes any change of title to real property by reason of the death of the owner of that real property, regardless of wh...

...As used in sections 5815.02 and 5815.03 of the Revised Code: (A) "Fiduciary" includes a trustee under any trust, expressed, implied, resulting, or constructive; an executor, administrator, public administrator, guardian, committee, conservator, curator, receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, assignee for the benefit of creditors, partner, agent, officer of a public or private corporation, or public officer; or any other p...

...Unless there has been delivered to an issuer a certified copy of an order, judgment, or decree of a court, judge, or administrative body or official, the legal effect of which is to restrict, suspend, or remove such capacity or authority, the issuer may treat all persons in whose names its securities are of record on its records as being of full age and competent and as having capacity and authority to exercise all r...

...As used in sections 5815.04 to 5815.11 of the Revised Code: (A) "Bank" includes any person, carrying on the business of banking and any financial institution defined in section 5725.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "Fiduciary" includes a trustee under any trust, expressed, implied, resulting, or constructive, an executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, curator, receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, assignee for the be...

...A person who in good faith pays or transfers to a fiduciary any money or other property that the fiduciary as such is authorized to receive is not responsible for the proper application of the money or other property by the fiduciary. Any right or title acquired from the fiduciary in consideration of the payment or transfer is not invalid because of a misapplication by the fiduciary.

...If a deposit is made in a bank to the credit of a fiduciary as such, the bank may pay the amount of the deposit or any part thereof upon the check of the fiduciary, signed with the name in which the deposit is entered, without being liable to the principal, unless the bank pays the check with actual knowledge that the fiduciary is committing a breach of the obligation as fiduciary in drawing the check or with knowle...

...If a check is drawn upon the principal's account by a fiduciary who is empowered to do so, the bank may pay the check without being liable to the principal, unless the bank pays the check with actual knowledge that the fiduciary is committing a breach of the obligation as fiduciary in drawing the check or with knowledge of such facts that its action in paying the check amounts to bad faith. If such a check is payab...

...If a fiduciary makes a deposit in a bank to the fiduciary's personal credit of checks drawn by the fiduciary upon an account in the fiduciary's own name as fiduciary, checks payable to the fiduciary as fiduciary, checks drawn by the fiduciary upon an account in the name of the principal if the fiduciary is empowered to draw checks thereon, checks payable to the principal and indorsed by the fiduciary if the fiduci...

...When a deposit is made in a bank in the name of two or more persons as trustees and a check is drawn upon the trust account by any trustee authorized to do so by the other, neither the payee or other holder nor the bank is bound to inquire whether it is a breach of trust to authorize the trustee to draw checks upon the trust account and neither is liable unless the circumstances are such that the action of the payee ...

...Sections 5815.04 to 5815.11 of the Revised Code shall be construed to effectuate their general purpose of making the law of this state uniform with the law of those states that enact similar legislation.

...In any case not provided for in sections 5815.04 to 5815.11 of the Revised Code, the rules of law and equity, including the law merchant and those rules of law and equity relating to trusts, agency, negotiable instruments, and banking apply.

...As used in sections 5815.13, 5815.14, and 5815.15 of the Revised Code, "power of appointment" means any power that is in effect a power to appoint, however created, regardless of the nomenclature used in creating the power and regardless of connotations under the law of property, trusts, or wills. The power includes but is not limited to powers which are special, general, limited, absolute, in gross, appendant, appur...

...Any power of appointment that is not subject to an express condition that it may be exercised only by a donee or holder of a greater age may be exercised by any donee or holder of the age of eighteen years or over.

...Any power of appointment may be released in whole or in part by the donee or holder of the power by an instrument in writing, signed and acknowledged in the manner prescribed for the execution of deeds. No such release is ineffective because it was given either for or without consideration, because it was signed and acknowledged before June 3, 1943, or because no delivery is made of a copy of the release as provided ...

...No fiduciary or other person having the possession or control of any property subject to a power of appointment, other than the donee or holder of such power, has notice of a release of the power until a copy of the release is delivered to the fiduciary or other person having possession or control. No purchaser or mortgagee of real property subject to a power of appointment has notice of a release of the powe...

... (A) Absent an express agreement to the contrary, an attorney who performs legal services for a fiduciary, by reason of the attorney performing those legal services for the fiduciary, has no duty or obligation in contract, tort, or otherwise to any third party to whom the fiduciary owes fiduciary obligations. (B) Any communication between an attorney and a client who is acting as a fiduciary is privileged and protec...

...(A) If, by the consumers' counsel's own inquiries or as a result of complaints, the consumers' counsel has reasonable grounds to believe that a natural gas company is engaging in an act or practice giving rise to a ground for complaint under section 4905.26 of the Revised Code, the consumers' counsel may investigate. Prior to commencing an investigation, the consumers' counsel shall notify the natural gas company in ...

... (A) Subject to division (C) of this section, on and after the effective date of this section, no service provider shall enter into, amend, or renew a service agreement with a consumer if both of the following apply: (1) The service subject to the agreement is not to be performed within one year after the date the parties enter into the agreement. (2) The service agreement has any of the following characteristics...

... (A) As used in this section, "right-to-list home sale agreement" has the same meaning as in section 4735.01 of the Revised Code. (B) A right-to-list home sale agreement executed, modified, or extended after the effective date of this section is void ab initio and unenforceable. (C) A right-to-list home sale agreement described in division (B) of this section is an unfair or deceptive act or practice in violati...

...(A)(1) In addition to any other remedy available, a contract or agreement for the sale of a condominium ownership interest that is executed in violation of section 5311.25 or 5311.26 of the Revised Code shall be voidable by the purchaser until the later of fifteen days after the contract is entered into for sale of the condominium ownership interest or fifteen days after the purchaser executes a document evidencin...

... (A) For the purpose of preventing manipulative practices by a person who makes a proposal, or publicly discloses the intention or possibility of making a proposal, to acquire control of a corporation formed under the laws of this state, any profit realized, directly or indirectly, from the disposition of any equity securities of a corporation by a person who, within eighteen months before disposition directly or ind...

... (A) As used in this section: "Member" has the same meaning as in section 1706.01 of the Revised Code. "Internet identifier of record" has the same meaning as in section 9.312 of the Revised Code. "Interim period" means, for each county, the tax year to which section 5715.24 of the Revised Code applies and each subsequent tax year until the tax year in which that section applies again. "Legislative authority"...

...(A) For the purpose of division (C) of section 3107.66 of the Revised Code, an agency or attorney that arranged an adoption shall provide the probate court that finalized the adoption with the agency's or attorney's records of the adoption when the agency or attorney permanently ceases to arrange adoptions. If an agency permanently ceases to arrange adoptions because the person operating the agency has died or becom...

...(A) In representing a seller in an agency relationship, a licensee shall: (1) Seek a purchase offer at a price and with terms acceptable to the seller. Unless the seller so directs, the licensee is not obligated to seek additional offers if the property is subject to a contract of sale, lease, or letter of intent to lease; (2) Accept delivery of and present any purchase offer to the seller in a timely manner, even ...

...(A) In representing a purchaser in an agency relationship, a licensee shall: (1) Seek a property at a price and with purchase or lease terms acceptable to the purchaser. Unless the client so directs, the licensee is not obligated to seek additional purchase or lease possibilities if the purchaser is a party to a contract to purchase property, or has entered into a lease or has extended a letter of intent to lease. ...

...(A) The secretary of state shall establish and maintain a list of all persons against whom more than one final, unappealable finding of contempt of court by a federal court or court of appeals has been issued and has remained uncorrected by the court within the immediately preceding two-year period after the listing of the finding by the secretary of state for failure to correct an unfair labor practice prohibited by...

... (A) No person shall act as an auction firm or auctioneer within this state without a license issued by the department of agriculture. No auction shall be conducted in this state except by an auctioneer licensed by the department. Except as provided in division (D) of this section, the department shall not issue or renew a license if the applicant or licensee has been convicted of a felony or crime involving fraud ...

...(A) As used in this section, "prosecutor" has the same meaning as in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Whenever any person holding a valid license to practice as a physician assistant issued pursuant to this chapter pleads guilty to, is subject to a judicial finding of guilt of, or is subject to a judicial finding of eligibility for intervention in lieu of conviction for a violation of Chapter 2907., 2925., o...

... (A) As used in this section, "prosecutor" has the same meaning as in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Whenever any person holding a valid license or certificate issued pursuant to this chapter pleads guilty to, is subject to a judicial finding of guilt of, or is subject to a judicial finding of eligibility for intervention in lieu of conviction for a violation of Chapter 2907., 2925., or 3719. of the Revis...

...(A) As used in this section, "prosecutor" has the same meaning as in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The prosecutor in any case against any chiropractor holding a valid license issued under this chapter shall promptly notify the state chiropractic board of any of the following: (1) A plea of guilty to, or a finding of guilt by a jury or court of, a felony, or a case in which the trial court issues an order...

... (A) In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the state speech and hearing professionals board may reprimand or place on probation a speech-language pathologist or audiologist or suspend, revoke, or, except as provided in division (B) of this section, refuse to issue or renew the license of a speech-language pathologist or audiologist. Disciplinary actions may be taken by the board for conduct that may re...

...(A) As used in this section, "prosecutor" has the same meaning as in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Whenever any person holding a valid license issued pursuant to this chapter pleads guilty to, is subject to a judicial finding of guilt of, or is subject to a judicial finding of eligibility for intervention in lieu of conviction for a violation of Chapter 2907., 2925., or 3719. of the Revised Code or of an...

...(A) As used in this section, "prosecutor" has the same meaning as in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The prosecutor in any case against any respiratory care professional or an individual holding a limited permit issued under this chapter shall promptly notify the state medical board of any of the following: (1) A plea of guilty to, or a finding of guilt by a jury or court of, a felony, or a case in which t...

...(A) As used in this section, "prosecutor" has the same meaning as in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Whenever any person holding a valid license to practice as an oriental medicine practitioner or valid license to practice as an acupuncturist issued pursuant to this chapter pleads guilty to, is subject to a judicial finding of guilt of, or is subject to a judicial finding of eligibility for intervention in...

... (A) As used in this section, "prosecutor" has the same meaning as in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Whenever any person holding a valid license to practice as a certified mental health assistant issued under this chapter pleads guilty to, is subject to a judicial finding of guilt of, or is subject to a judicial finding of eligibility for intervention in lieu of conviction for a violation of Chapter 2907....

...(A) As used in this section, "prosecutor" has the same meaning as in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Whenever any person holding a valid license to practice as a radiologist assistant issued under this chapter pleads guilty to, is subject to a judicial finding of guilt of, or is subject to a judicial finding of eligibility for intervention in lieu of conviction for a violation of Chapter 2907., 2925., or 3...

...(A) As used in this section, "prosecutor" has the same meaning as in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Whenever any individual holding a valid license to practice as a genetic counselor pleads guilty to, is subject to a judicial finding of guilt of, or is subject to a judicial finding of eligibility for intervention in lieu of conviction for a violation of Chapter 2907., 2925., or 3719. of the Revised C...

... If the state chiropractic board determines that there is clear and convincing evidence that a person who has been granted a license to practice chiropractic and, if applicable, certificate to practice acupuncture under this chapter has committed an act that subjects the person's license and, if applicable, certificate to board action under section 4734.31 of the Revised Code and that the person's continued practice ...

... (A) No person shall employ fraud or deception in applying for or securing a license to practice physical therapy or to be a physical therapist assistant. (B) No person shall practice or in any way imply or claim to the public by words, actions, or the use of letters as described in division (C) of this section to be able to practice physical therapy or to provide physical therapy services, including practice as a...

...An anesthesiologist assistant shall practice only under the direct supervision and in the immediate presence of a physician who is actively and directly engaged in the clinical practice of medicine as an anesthesiologist. An anesthesiologist assistant shall not practice in any location other than a hospital or ambulatory surgical facility. At all times when an anesthesiologist assistant is providing direct patient ca...

...(A) A person licensed, and any person required to be licensed under sections 1321.35 to 1321.48 of the Revised Code, in addition to duties imposed by other statutes or common law, shall do all of the following: (1) Follow reasonable and lawful instructions from the borrower; (2) Act with reasonable skill, care, and diligence; (3) Act in good faith and fair dealing in any transaction or practice or course ...