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...icensee on the business day immediately preceding, together with the number of the receipt issued.

...No person licensed under Chapter 4728. of the Revised Code shall purchase any articles from any minor, or from any person intoxicated or under the influence of a controlled substance, from any person who is known or believed by the licensee to be a thief, or a receiver of stolen property.

...(A) A person licensed under Chapter 4728. of the Revised Code shall retain in this state any articles purchased by him until the expiration of five days after the date of purchase. (B) If the chief or head of the local police department to whom the licensee made available the information required by this chapter has probable cause to believe that the article described therein is stolen property, he shall notify the...

...The superintendent of financial institutions shall enforce this chapter, make all reasonable effort to discover alleged violators, notify the proper prosecuting officer whenever the superintendent has reasonable grounds to believe that a violation has occurred, act as complainant in the prosecution thereof, and aid officers to the best of the superintendent's ability in prosecutions. The superintendent shall employ ...

...ntains gold, silver, platinum, or other precious metals or jewels of any description if both the buyer and seller, or the respective agents, brokers, or other intermediaries of both the buyer and seller, deal in such articles or otherwise by their respective occupations, or by their respective avocations as collectors, speculators, or investors, hold themselves out as having knowledge or skill peculiar to such articl...

...aining gold, silver, platinum, or other precious metals or jewels of any description from the public, shall maintain at each business location for at least the twelve months immediately succeeding any such transaction a record that shall include the following: (1) The date and time of the transaction; (2) The name and residential address of the seller and the means of identification used to establish the seller's i...

...(A) No person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association, and no agent, officer, or employee thereof, shall violate this chapter. The division of financial institutions upon a criminal conviction shall revoke any license theretofore issued to the person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association. The division also may revoke or suspend the license of any licensee in accordance with section 4728.03 of the R...

...ontain gold, silver, platinum, or other precious metals or jewels of any description to comply with this chapter may commence a civil action to recover compensatory damages from such person. In any action under this section, the court may award punitive damages or reasonable attorney's fees to a prevailing plaintiff.

...The division of consumer finance shall comply with section 4776.20 of the Revised Code.

...Whoever violates Chapter 4728. of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree on a first offense and a felony of the fifth degree on each subsequent offense.

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Aggrieved person" means a person with duties and obligations under sections 153.64, 3781.27, and 3781.28 to 3781.32 of the Revised Code and divisions (A) and (B) of section 3781.26 of the Revised Code and who is directly involved with or impacted by the alleged compliance failure, as identified in the request for inquiry, of another person with duties and obligations under sections 153....

...(A) Each utility, excavator, developer, and designer who participates in the one-call notification system shall register with the public utilities commission and pay a safety registration not to exceed fifty dollars annually, which the commission may lower if the commission determines lowering the registration to be necessary. The commission shall administer and oversee the registration process. Failure to register s...

...(A) Beginning January 1, 2016, an aggrieved person may request an inquiry with the staff of the public utilities commission seeking the imposition, in accordance with this chapter, of a fine or penalty on the person responsible for the alleged compliance failure described in division (A) of section 4913.01 of the Revised Code. The person shall make the request not later than ninety days after discovering the alleged ...

...If a request for an inquiry is made under section 4913.05 of the Revised Code, the person responsible for the alleged compliance failure may, not later than thirty days after being notified under that section, respond to the request, providing any information that the person considers relevant to the request. The response may include an admission of the compliance failure.

...(A) The staff of the public utilities commission shall conduct an inquiry upon receiving a request made under section 4913.05 of the Revised Code. The inquiry shall be limited to whether there was a compliance failure. (B) During an inquiry conducted under this section, the staff shall examine relevant facts regarding the alleged compliance failure and may request records verification, informal meetings, teleconfere...

...The staff of the public utilities commission shall make a report of each inquiry conducted under section 4913.09 of the Revised Code available to the underground technical committee, created under section 3781.34 of the Revised Code. The report shall contain any admission made under section 4913.07 of the Revised Code by the person who is the subject of the inquiry. This report shall not contain a recommendation as t...

...(A) The underground technical committee shall review every report of the staff of the public utilities commission made available under section 4913.13 of the Revised Code or submitted under section 4913.16 of the Revised Code. (B) Not later than ninety days after the committee obtains the staff's report under section 4913.13 of the Revised Code, the committee shall do any of the following: (1) Make a written reco...

...In determining a fine or penalty recommendation as required under section 4913.15 or 4913.16 of the Revised Code: (A) If the compliance failure is the first for the person responsible, the underground technical committee may recommend a penalty of a training requirement, an education requirement, or another nonmonetary penalty, or may recommend a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars, or may recommend...

...The underground technical committee may communicate with persons who have knowledge or information concerning the alleged compliance failure as part of the committee's review under section 4913.15 of the Revised Code and to assist the committee in making recommendations under that section and section 4913.16 of the Revised Code.

...(A)(1) If the underground technical committee votes during the ninety-day time period as required under division (B) of section 4913.15 of the Revised Code but fails to achieve the required majority as described in division (C) of that section, no enforcement action shall be taken. (2) If the committee, during the ninety-day time period, fails to vote on any action as required under division (B) of section 4913.15 o...

...(A) Based upon the number and type of compliance failures committed by a person, the underground technical committee may find, as part of the committee's review under section 4913.15 of the Revised Code, that the person is a persistent noncomplier. (B) The committee shall report a finding made under division (A) of this section to the staff of the public utilities commission. (C) There shall be a majority vote of...

...If the underground technical committee reports that a person responsible for a compliance failure has been found to be a persistent noncomplier under section 4913.17 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission may impose a fine on the person not exceeding ten thousand dollars. A penalty recommended by the committee under section 4913.15 or 4913.16 of the Revised Code may also be imposed by the commission.

...In lieu of making a recommendation of a fine or penalty or a no-enforcement determination, the underground technical committee may request an administrative hearing with the public utilities commission if the committee believes that any person responsible for a compliance failure should be subject to a fine or penalty exceeding those described in section 4913.151 of the Revised Code. As a result of the hearing, the c...

...In determining a fine or penalty recommendation or imposition or whether no enforcement action should be taken under section 4913.15, 4913.16, 4913.171, 4913.19, or 4913.25 of the Revised Code, the underground technical committee, the public utilities commission, and the commission staff, as applicable, shall consider the following factors, as they apply: (A) The person's demonstrated history of one-call, design, an...

...Except as provided in sections 4913.171 and 4913.19 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall impose every recommendation made under section 4913.15 or 4913.16 of the Revised Code by the underground technical committee.