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...In order to ensure that archaeological survey and salvage work on public lands, dedicated archaeological preserves, and registered state archaeological landmarks is conducted in a scientific manner, the director of the Ohio history connection shall, in consultation with the Ohio archaeological council and the archaeological society of Ohio, adopt and may amend or rescind rules, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the ...

...(A) As used in this section, "abandoned property" has the same meaning as in section 1506.30 of the Revised Code. (B) The Ohio history connection shall establish a program to locate, identify, and evaluate abandoned property and other resources in Lake Erie. The Ohio history connection, in accordance with the authority granted under section 149.30 of the Revised Code, may list any abandoned property it finds to have...

...(A) The Ohio Ireland trade commission is created. The commission shall study potential means of advancing the following: (1) Bilateral trade and investment between Ohio and Ireland; (2) Policy issues of mutual interest to Ohio and Ireland; (3) Business and academic exchanges between Ohio and Ireland; (4) Mutual economic support between Ohio and Ireland; (5) Mutual investment in the infrastructure of Oh...

...(A) Pursuant to the powers granted to the general assembly under Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, to authorize the issuance of obligations, and pursuant to other authority vested in the general assembly, there is hereby created a body, both corporate and politic, constituting an agency and instrumentality of the state of Ohio and performing essential functions of the state, to be known as the "Ohio public facilities ...

...This section applies to obligations as defined in this section. (A) As used in this section: (1) "Costs of capital facilities" includes related direct administrative expenses and allocable portions of direct costs of the using school district and the Ohio facilities construction commission. (2) "Net state lottery proceeds" means the amount determined by the director of budget and management to be an excess amount ...

...This section applies to obligations as defined in this section. (A) As used in this section: (1) "Costs of capital facilities" include related direct administrative expenses and allocable portions of direct costs of the using institution. (2) "Obligations" means obligations as defined in section 151.01 of the Revised Code issued to pay costs of capital facilities for state-supported or state-assisted institu...

...This section applies to obligations as defined in this section. (A) As used in this section: (1) "Capital facilities" means any project or capital improvements for any of the following: state and local parks and land and water recreation facilities; soil and water restoration and protection; land management, including preservation of natural areas and reforestation; water management, including dam safety, stream an...

...This section applies to obligations as defined in this section. (A) As used in this section: (1) "Capital facilities" or "projects" means highway capital improvements, which shall be limited to highways, including those on the state highway system and urban extensions thereof, those within or leading to public parks or recreation areas, and those within or leading to municipal corporations. (2) "Costs of capital f...

...This section applies to obligations as defined in this section. (A) As used in this section: (1) "Costs of capital facilities" or "costs of projects" includes related direct administrative expenses and allocable portions of direct costs of the Ohio coal development office, the cost of demolishing or removing any buildings or structures on land acquired, including the cost of acquiring any lands to which such buildi...

...This section applies to obligations as defined in this section. (A) As used in this section: (1) "Capital facilities" or "capital improvement projects" means the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement, planning, and equipping of roads and bridges, waste water treatment systems, water supply systems, solid waste disposal facilities, flood control systems, and storm water and sanitary collection, stor...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Costs of conservation projects" includes related direct administrative expenses and allocable portions of the direct costs of those projects of the department of agriculture, the department of natural resources, or the Ohio public works commission. (2) "Obligations" means obligations as defined in section 151.01 of the Revised Code issued to pay costs of pr...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Costs of research and development projects" includes related direct administrative expenses and allocable portions of the direct costs of those projects, costs of capital facilities, and working capital, all for the following: (a) Attracting researchers and research teams by endowing research chairs or otherwise; (b) Activities to develop and commercialize products and processes; ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Costs of sites and facilities" includes related direct administrative expenses and allocable portions of the direct costs of those projects. "Costs of sites and facilities" includes "allowable costs" as defined in section 122.085 of the Revised Code. (2) "Obligations" means obligations as defined in section 151.01 of the Revised Code issued to pay costs of sites and faciliti...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Bond proceedings" includes any trust agreements, and any amendments or supplements to them, as authorized by this section. (2) "Costs of revitalization projects" includes related direct administrative expenses and allocable portions of the direct costs of those projects of the department of development or the environmental protection agency. (3) "Issuing authority" means the...

...(A) Whenever any building or structure for the use of the state or any institution supported in whole or in part by the state or in or upon the public works of the state that is administered by the Ohio facilities construction commission or by any other state officer or state agency authorized by law to administer a project, including an educational institution listed in section 3345.50 of the Revised Code, is ...

...(A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, whenever any building or structure, including highway improvements, in whole or in part supported by state capital funds, including moneys from the education facilities trust fund, is to be erected or constructed, or whenever additions, alterations, or structural or other improvements are to be made, if any steel products are to be purchased for or provide...

...With respect to the award of any contract for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, enlargement, alteration, repair, painting or decoration of a public improvement, including any highway improvement, made by the state or in whole or in part supported by the state, except for a contract for products produced or mined in Ohio or for a contract financed in whole or in part by contributions or loans from any age...

...(A) As used in this section, "indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract" means a contract for an indefinite quantity, within stated limits, of supplies or services that will be delivered by the awarded bidder over a defined contract period. (B) The executive director of the capitol square review and advisory board, with the approval of the board, may advertise and seek bids for, and may award, an indefinite ...

...(A) The executive director of the Ohio facilities construction commission, may debar a contractor from contract awards for public improvements as referred to in section 153.01 of the Revised Code or for projects as defined in section 3318.01 of the Revised Code, upon proof that the contractor has done any of the following: (1) Defaulted on a contract requiring the execution of a takeover agreement as set forth in d...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Contracting authority" means any state agency or other state instrumentality that is authorized to award a public improvement contract. (2) "Bidder" means a person who submits a bid to a contracting authority to perform work under a public improvement contract. (3) "Contractor" means any person with whom a contracting authority has entered into a public improvement contract ...

...The general assembly intends the drug-free workplace programs required by section 153.03 of the Revised Code to be limited to the constructing, altering, or repairing of public improvements of the state and to be of assistance in ensuring that such public improvements are constructed, altered, or repaired in a manner that protects the safety of the citizens of this state.

...The plans, details, bills of material, specifications of work, estimates of cost in detail and in the aggregate, life-cycle cost analysis, form of bid, bid guaranty, and other data that may be required shall be prepared on such material and in such manner and form as are prescribed by the Ohio facilities construction commission. The life-cycle costs shall be a primary consideration in the selection of a design....

...The bond required by section 153.08 of the Revised Code may be enforced against the person executing such bond, by any claimant for labor or material, and suit may be brought on such bond in the name of the state on relation of the claimant within one year from the date of delivering or furnishing such labor or material, in the court of common pleas of the county wherein such labor or material was furnished or delive...

...After the proceedings required by sections 153.01 and 153.04 of the Revised Code have been complied with, the owner referred to in section 153.01 of the Revised Code shall give public notice of the time and place when and where bids will be received for performing the labor and furnishing the materials of such construction, improvement, alteration, addition, or installation, and a contract awarded, except for m...

...The notice provided for in section 153.06 of the Revised Code shall be published once each week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation, or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, in the county where the activity for which bids are submitted is to occur and in such other newspapers as ordered by the Ohio facilities construction commission, the last publication to be at least e...

...If it appears to the superintendent of insurance upon satisfactory evidence that the assets of an insurance company, organized under the laws of this state, after deducting therefrom all liabilities including reinsurance, reserve, or unearned premium fund, computed according to the laws of this state, are reduced below the capital required by law for a stock company or the surplus required for any other company, he s...

...Any domestic insurer and any foreign or alien insurer authorized to do business in this state may retain, invest in, or acquire the whole or any part of the capital stock of any other insurer, or have a common management with any other insurer, provided such retention, investment, acquisition, or common management is not inconsistent with any other law relating to the investment of the funds of domestic insurers, and...

...Any person otherwise qualified may be a director of two or more insurers which are competitors or which have a common management, but no such interlocking directorate shall be used as a means of substantially lessening competition generally in the business of insurance or of creating a monopoly therein.

...Whenever the superintendent of insurance has reason to believe that there is a violation of section 3901.11 or 3901.12 of the Revised Code, he shall serve upon the insurers and directors a notice of a hearing before the superintendent to be held not less than thirty days after the service of such notice, and requiring such insurers and directors to show cause why an order should not be made by the superintendent dir...

...The superintendent of insurance shall preserve a full record of his proceedings, including a concise statement of the condition of each insurance company or association authorized to transact business in this state. Each year the superintendent shall report their general conduct and condition, including the information contained in the statement required of them, arranged in tabular form in two separate reports, one...

...The laws relating to the superintendent of insurance apply to all persons, companies, and associations, whether incorporated or not, engaged in the business of insurance.

...Any association, company, or corporation, including a health insuring corporation, which violates any law relating to the superintendent of insurance, any provision of Chapter 1751. or 1753. of the Revised Code, or any insurance law of this state, for the violation of which no forfeiture or penalty is elsewhere provided in the Revised Code, shall forfeit and pay not less than one thousand nor more than ten thousand d...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Captive insurer" has the same meaning as in section 3905.36 of the Revised Code. (2) "Insurer" includes, but is not limited to, any person that is an affiliate of or affiliated with the insurer, as defined in section 3901.32 of the Revised Code, and any person that is a subsidiary of the insurer as defined in section 3901.32 of the Revised Code. (3) "Laws of this state relat...

...(A) Before any unauthorized foreign or alien insurer may enter an appearance in any court action, suit, or proceeding or in any administrative proceeding before the superintendent of insurance, such unauthorized insurer shall either: (1) Deposit with the clerk of the court in which such action, suit, or proceeding is pending or with the superintendent if such proceeding is before him, cash or securities or file with...

...As used in sections 3901.19 to 3901.26 of the Revised Code: (A) "Person" means any individual, corporation, association, partnership, reciprocal exchange, inter-insurer, fraternal benefit society, title guarantee and trust company, health insuring corporation, and any other legal entity. (B) "Residents" includes any individual, partnership, or corporation. (C) "Maternity benefits" means those benefits calculated t...

...No person shall engage in this state in any trade practice which is defined in sections 3901.19 to 3901.23 of the Revised Code as, or determined pursuant to those sections to be, an unfair or deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance. This section applies to any person, as defined in section 3901.19 of the Revised Code, regardless of whether the person is licensed or required to be licensed by the super...

...The following are hereby defined as unfair and deceptive acts or practices in the business of insurance: (A) Making, issuing, circulating, or causing or permitting to be made, issued, or circulated, or preparing with intent to so use, any estimate, illustration, circular, or statement misrepresenting the terms of any policy issued or to be issued or the benefits or advantages promised thereby or the dividends or s...

...(A)(1) No person may require as a condition precedent to the lending of money or the extension of credit, or any renewal thereof, that the person to whom such money or credit is extended or whose obligation a creditor is to acquire or finance, negotiate any policy or renewal thereof through a particular insurer or group of insurers or agent or group of agents. (2) No person may reject an insurance policy solely beca...

...(A) As used in sections 3901.212 to 3901.213 of the Revised Code, "consumer" means a policyholder, potential policyholder, certificate holder, potential certificate holder, insured, potential insured, or applicant. (B) The superintendent may adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement the practices set forth in section 3901.213 of the Revised Code to ensure consumer protection. Such regula...

...Nothing in division (F) or (G) of section 3901.21 or in section 3933.01 of the Revised Code shall be construed as prohibiting any of the following practices: (A) In the case of any contract of life insurance or life annuity, paying bonuses to policyholders or otherwise abating their premiums in whole or in part out of surplus accumulated from nonparticipating insurance, provided that any such bonuses or abatement o...

...The provisions of sections 3901.213 and 3933.01 of the Revised Code that prohibit a producer or insurer from giving rebates, discounts, gifts, or other valuable consideration as an inducement to insurance do not apply to commercial property and casualty insurance, but do apply to producer commission reductions not included in insurance company rate filings.

...The intent of the general assembly in amending section 3901.21 of the Revised Code and enacting sections 3901.212 and 3901.213 of the Revised Code is to promote innovation in connection with the offering of value-added services while maintaining strong consumer protections.

...(A) The superintendent of insurance may conduct hearings to determine whether violations of section 3901.20 of the Revised Code have occurred. Any person aggrieved with respect to any act that the person believes to be an unfair or deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance, as defined in section 3901.21 or 3901.211 of the Revised Code or in any rule of the superintendent, may make written application to ...

...If a violation of section 3901.20 of the Revised Code has caused, is causing, or is about to cause substantial and material harm, the superintendent of insurance may issue an order that the person cease and desist from any activity violating such section. Notice of the order shall be served in accordance with section 119.05 of the Revised Code, immediately after its issuance by the superintendent to the person subjec...

...If any person asks to be excused from attending and testifying or from producing any books, papers, records, correspondence, or other documents at any hearing on the ground that the testimony or evidence required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture and notwithstanding is directed to give such testimony or produce such evidence, he must none the less comply with such direction,...

...No unauthorized foreign or alien insurer shall make, issue, circulate, or cause to be made, issued, or circulated, to residents of this state any estimate, illustration, circular, pamphlet, or letter, or cause to be made in any newspaper, magazine, or other publication or over any radio or television station, any announcement or statement to such residents misrepresenting its financial condition or the terms of any c...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Exchange" has the same meaning as in section 3905.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Enrollee's expected contribution" means any portion of the cost of a health service covered by a health benefit plan offered through an exchange that a person enrolled under such a plan would be expected to pay, including any copayments or cost sharing. (B)(1) An insurer offering a health benefit plan t...

...If after thirty days following the giving of the notice mentioned in section 3901.24 of the Revised Code such insurer has failed to cease making, issuing, or circulating such false misrepresentations or causing the same to be made, issued, or circulated in this state, and if the superintendent of insurance has reason to believe that a proceeding by him in respect to such matters would be to the interest of the publi...

...(A) Any of the following acts in this state, effected by mail or otherwise, by any such unauthorized foreign or alien insurer; (1) the issuance or delivery of contracts or insurance to residents of this state, (2) the solicitation of applications for such contracts, (3) the collection of premiums, membership fees, assessments, or other considerations for such contracts, or (4) any other transaction of insurance busin...

...The board of directors of any domestic insurance company may at any time adopt emergency bylaws, subject to repeal or change by action of those having power to adopt regular bylaws for the company, which shall be operative during an emergency, and which may, notwithstanding any different provisions of the regular bylaws, or of the applicable statutes, or of the company's charter, make any provision reasonably necessa...