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...(A) If a public auction is held for abandoned land pursuant to section 323.73 of the Revised Code, but the land is not sold at the public auction, the county board of revision may order the disposition of the abandoned land in accordance with division (B) or (C) of this section. (B) The abandoned land offered for sale at a public auction as described in section 323.73 of the Revised Code, but not sold at the aucti...

...(A) Notwithstanding anything in Chapters 323., 5721., and 5723. of the Revised Code, a county treasurer may elect to invoke the alternative redemption period in any petition for foreclosure of abandoned lands under section 323.25, sections 323.65 to 323.79, or section 5721.18 of the Revised Code. (B) If a county treasurer invokes the alternative redemption period pursuant to this section, and if a municipal corpor...

...The director of education and workforce shall adopt rules governing the purchasing and leasing of data processing services and equipment for all local, exempted village, city, and joint vocational school districts and all educational service centers. Such rules shall include provisions for the establishment of an Ohio education computer network under procedures, guidelines, and specifications of the department of edu...

...(A) No official or board of this state, whether appointed or elected, shall enter into any agreement or memorandum of understanding with any federal or private entity that would require the state to cede any measure of control over the development, adoption, or revision of academic content standards. (B) No funds appropriated from the general revenue fund shall be used to purchase an assessment developed by the pa...

...Notwithstanding division (D) of section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code, the department of education and workforce may have access to personally identifiable information about any student under the following circumstances: (A) An entity with which the department contracts for the scoring of assessments administered under section 3301.0711 or 3301.0712 of the Revised Code has notified the department that the student'...

...(A) As used in this section, "dropout recovery community school" has the same meaning as in section 3319.301 of the Revised Code. (B) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in section 3301.0710, 3301.0711, or 3301.0712 of the Revised Code, a dropout recovery community school shall do both of the following with regard to the administration of end-of-course examinations required under section 3301.0712 of the...

...(A) As used in this section and section 3313.60 of the Revised Code, "evidence-based" means a program or practice that does either of the following: (1) Demonstrates a rationale based on high-quality research findings or positive evaluation that such a program or practice is likely to improve relevant outcomes and includes ongoing efforts to examine the effects of the program or practice; (2) Has a statisticall...

...(A) The department of children and youth shall formulate and prescribe by rule adopted under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code minimum standards to be applied to preschool programs operated by school district boards of education, county boards of developmental disabilities, community schools, or eligible nonpublic schools. The rules shall include the following: (1) Standards ensuring that the preschool program is l...

...No school child program may receive any state or federal funds specifically allocated for school child programs unless the school child program is licensed by the department of children and youth pursuant to sections 3301.52 to 3301.59 or Chapter 5104. of the Revised Code.

...(A) The department of education and workforce shall establish a measure of the following: (1) Student success in meeting the benchmarks contained in the physical education standards adopted under division (A)(3) of section 3301.079 of the Revised Code; (2) Compliance with the requirements for local wellness policies prescribed by section 204 of the "Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004," 42 U.S.C...

...(A) Not more than thirty days after the department of education and workforce issues report cards under section 3302.03 of the Revised Code, each school district and school building shall do the following: (1) Notify parents that the report card has been released and how parents can access the report card. Notification may include mailed letters, emails, newsletters, or any other proactive notification method used...

...The school employees retirement board shall be the trustee of certain funds hereby created as follows: (A) The "employees' savings fund" is the fund in which shall be accumulated the contributions deducted from the compensation of contributors as provided by section 3309.47 of the Revised Code, together with the interest credited thereon. Such accumulated contributions refunded upon withdrawal or payable to a benefi...

...(A) As used in this section and sectoins 3309.75 and 3309.76 of the Revised Code, "military service credit" means credit purchased or obtained under the school employees retirement system or city of Cincinnati retirement system for service in the armed forces of the United States. (B) Service credit and contributions may be transferred between the school employees retirement system and the Cincinnati retirement sys...

...If a student is eligible for an educational choice scholarship under section 3310.03 of the Revised Code for a school year as of the first day of February prior to that school year, that student's eligibility for a scholarship for that school year shall not change solely because, after the first day of February, the department of education and workforce changes the internal retrieval number of the school building in ...

...(A) A holder has no obligation to, and has no liability to, the covered entity or to any person with respect to any obligation or liability of the covered entity in an asbestos claim under the doctrine of piercing the corporate veil unless the person seeking to pierce the corporate veil demonstrates all of the following: (1) The holder exerted such control over the covered entity that the covered entity had no separ...

...(A) Except as provided by section 2313.15 of the Revised Code, the court of common pleas or the commissioners of jurors shall not excuse a person who is liable to serve as a juror and who is drawn and notified, unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the judge or commissioners by either the juror or another person acquainted with the facts that one or more of the following applies: (1) The interests of the publi...

...(A) Any person called as a juror for the trial of any cause shall be examined under oath or upon affirmation as to the person's qualifications. A person is qualified to serve as a juror if the person is eighteen years of age or older, is a resident of the county, and is an elector or would be an elector if the person were registered to vote, regardless of whether the person actually is registered to vote. (B)...

...(A) As used in this section, "title insurance company" has the same meaning as in section 3953.01 of the Revised Code. (B) In every action demanding the judicial sale of residential real estate consisting of one to four single-family units, the party seeking that judicial sale shall file with the clerk of the court of common pleas within fourteen days after filing the pleadings requesting relief a preliminary...

...When a defendant in a judgment, or his surety or cosurety , by mistake has directed an execution issued on the judgment to be levied on property not liable thereto, thereby causing such judgment to be wholly or in part satisfied, and has been compelled to pay the owner of the property therefor, he has the same rights against a codefendant in such judgment, and against a cosurety or principal in respect of the debts o...

...(A) Except as provided in sections 2329.92 and 2329.93 of the Revised Code, any foreign country judgment that is final, conclusive, and enforceable where rendered shall be recognized and enforced by the courts of this state, even though an appeal from the judgment is pending or the judgment is subject to an appeal. Such a foreign country judgment is enforceable in this state in the same manner as a judgment of anothe...

...Unless displaced by particular provisions of sections 2337.01 to 2337.15 of the Revised Code, the principles of law and equity, including the law merchant, and the law relative to capacity to contract, principal and agent, estoppel, fraud, misrepresentation, duress, coercion, mistake, bankruptcy, or other validating or invalidating causes, supplement these sections.

...(A) Each court of appeals may appoint one or more official reporters, law clerks, secretaries, and any other employees that the court considers necessary for its efficient operation. The clerk of the court of common pleas, acting as the clerk of the court of appeals for the county, shall perform the duties otherwise performed and collect the fees otherwise collected by the clerk of the court of common pleas, ...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in sections 2506.05 to 2506.08 of the Revised Code, and except as modified by this section and sections 2506.02 to 2506.04 of the Revised Code, every final order, adjudication, or decision of any officer, tribunal, authority, board, bureau, commission, department, or other division of any political subdivision of the state may be reviewed by the court of common pleas of the county in ...

...(A)(1) Except as modified by this section and sections 2506.06 to 2506.08 of the Revised Code, every final order, adjudication, or decision of any officer, tribunal, authority, board, bureau, commission, department, or other division of any political subdivision of the state denying an application for, or suspending or revoking, a license or permit to locate or operate an adult entertainment establishment, as defined...

...Jurisdiction of judicial proceedings provided for by sections 2711.01 to 2711.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code, is generally in the courts of common pleas, and actions and proceedings brought under such sections shall be brought either in the court of common pleas of the county designated by the parties to the arbitration agreement as provided in section 2711.08 of the Revised Code, which designation is an irrevoca...

...When the record to be corrected is in any way connected with a body corporate, the petition mentioned in section 2719.02 of the Revised Code shall be filed in the county wherein the principal office of such corporation is located, and in all other cases, in the county wherein the record is kept.

...In a case under section 2733.15 of the Revised Code the court may order a new election to be held at a time and place and by judges it appoints. Notice of the election and naming such judges shall be given as provided by law for notice of elections of directors of the corporation. The order of the court is obligatory upon the corporation and its officers when a duly certified copy is served upon its secretary persona...

...Upon the appointment and qualification of trustees under section 2733.21 of the Revised Code, the supreme court, or the court of appeals in which the quo warranto proceedings have been instituted, may remand the proceedings to the court of common pleas of the county in which the corporation has or last had its principal place of business for further proceedings. When the proceedings are remanded, the court of common ...

...Upon the appointment and qualification of trustees under section 2733.21 of the Revised Code, they shall forthwith give notice of the order dissolving the corporation, of their appointment as trustees, and of the date of their appointment, by publication once a week for four consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the corporation has or had its principal place of business. Such ...

...If, in the judgment of the trustees appointed as provided in section 2733.21 of the Revised Code, any claims filed with them as provided in section 2733.24 of the Revised Code are for any reason not valid claims against the estate of the corporation, the trustees shall notify the claimants that their respective claims are rejected by written notice by registered mail, directed to the claimants' last known address. Su...

...(A) The powers of a receiver shall be set forth in the order of the court that appointed the receiver as those powers may be modified by the court or as otherwise approved by the court upon application of the receiver or a party to the action. (B) Under the control of the court that appointed the receiver as provided in section 2735.01 of the Revised Code, the receiver may do any of the following: (1) Bring and def...

...(A) The trial of a criminal case in this state shall be held in a court having jurisdiction of the subject matter, and, except in cases of emergency under section 1901.028, 1907.04, 2301.04, or 2501.20 of the Revised Code, in the territory of which the offense or any element of the offense was committed. (B) When the offense or any element of the offense was committed in an aircraft, motor vehicle, train, watercraft...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Commercial establishment" means an entity that is open to the public and to which either of the following applies: (a) It has a substantial or significant portion of its stock in trade of the sale, rental, or viewing of visual materials or performances depicting sexual conduct. (b) It has as a principal business purpose the sale, rental, or viewing of visual materials or performan...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Adult bookstore" or "adult video store" means a commercial establishment that has as a significant or substantial portion of its stock in trade or inventory in, derives a significant or substantial portion of its revenues from, devotes a significant or substantial portion of its interior business or advertising to, or maintains a substantial section of its sales or display sp...

...(A) No person shall knowingly do any of the following: (1) Attach, affix, or otherwise use a counterfeit mark in connection with the manufacture of goods or services, whether or not the goods or services are intended for sale or resale; (2) Possess, sell, or offer for sale tools, machines, instruments, materials, articles, or other items of personal property with the knowledge that they are designed for the ...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Bookmaking" means the business of receiving or paying off bets. (B) "Bet" means the hazarding of anything of value upon the result of an event, undertaking, or contingency, but does not include a bona fide business risk. (C) "Scheme of chance" means a slot machine unless authorized under Chapter 3772. of the Revised Code, lottery unless authorized under Chapter 3770. of the Revised...

...(A) No charitable organization that conducts bingo or a game of chance pursuant to division (D) of section 2915.02 of the Revised Code shall fail to maintain the following records for at least three years from the date on which the bingo or game of chance is conducted: (1) An itemized list of the gross receipts of each bingo session, each game of instant bingo by serial number, each electronic instant bingo game by...

...(A) No charitable organization shall conduct electronic instant bingo unless all of the following are true: (1) The organization is a veteran's organization described in division (J) of section 2915.01 of the Revised Code, or is a fraternal organization described in division (L) of section 2915.01 of the Revised Code, and the organization qualified as a veteran's organization or fraternal organization, as applicabl...

...As used in sections 2923.31 to 2923.36 of the Revised Code: (A) "Beneficial interest" means any of the following: (1) The interest of a person as a beneficiary under a trust in which the trustee holds title to personal or real property; (2) The interest of a person as a beneficiary under any other trust arrangement under which any other person holds title to personal or real property for the benefit of such person...