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... a certificate of authority to act as a public insurance adjuster, who adjusts any insurance losses without previously having obtained the required certificate of authority or who adjusts any insurance loss after his, or its, certificate of authority has been revoked, shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars for each loss adjusted without such certificate of authority. (B) The pena...

...the state treasury to the credit of the industrial relations operating fund created in section 4101.021 of the Revised Code. (B) Piping is exempt from the requirements for submission of applications and inspections and the necessity to obtain permits, as required under this section and section 4101.084 of the Revised Code, or under rules adopted pursuant to those sections, for power, refrigerating, hydraulic, heatin...

...Every employer shall furnish employment which is safe for the employees engaged therein, shall furnish a place of employment which shall be safe for the employees therein and for frequenters thereof, shall furnish and use safety devices and safeguards, shall adopt and use methods and processes, follow and obey orders, and prescribe hours of labor reasonably adequate to render such employment and places of employment ...

...No employer shall require, permit, or suffer any employee to go or be in any employment or place of employment which is not safe, and no such employer shall fail to furnish, provide, and use safety devices and safeguards, or fail to obey and follow orders or to adopt and use methods and processes reasonably adequate to render such employment and place of employment safe. No employer shall fail to do every other thing...

...No employee shall remove, displace, damage, destroy, or carry off any safety device or safeguard furnished or provided for use in any employment or place of employment, or interfere in any way with the use thereof by any other person. No employee shall interfere with the use of any method or process adopted for the protection of any employee in such employment or place of employment, or frequenter of such place of em...

...A substantial compliance with the applicable sections of sections 4101.01 to 4101.16, inclusive, and 4121.01 to 4121.29, inclusive, of the Revised Code, is sufficient to give effect to orders, and such orders shall not be declared inoperative, illegal, or void for any omission of a technical nature in respect thereto.

...No employer, employee, or other person shall violate this chapter or Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code, do any act prohibited by such chapters, fail to perform any duty lawfully enjoined, within the time prescribed by the bureau of workers' compensation, for which violation no penalty has been specifically provided, or fail to obey any lawful order given or made by the bureau, or any judgment or decree made by ...

...Every day during which any person, or corporation, or any officer, agent, or employee thereof fails to observe and comply with any order of the bureau of workers' compensation, or to perform any duty enjoined by this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code, constitutes a separate violation of the order or chapters.

...(A) Whoever violates section 4101.15 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than one thousand dollars for a first offense; for each subsequent offense such person shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five thousand dollars.

...rintendent" means the superintendent of industrial compliance created by section 121.04 of the Revised Code. (C) "Boiler" means a closed vessel in which water is heated, steam is generated, steam is superheated, or any combination thereof, under pressure or vacuum for use externally to itself by the direct application of heat from the combustion of fuels, or from electricity or nuclear energy. "Boiler" includes...

...ation of fusible plugs, appliances for indicating the pressure of steam and level of water in the boiler or pressure vessels, and such other appliances as the board considers necessary to safety in operating boilers; (4) Adopt rules that prescribe the conditions and requirements for design, certification, reporting, installation, operation, and periodic testing and maintenance of controls and safety devices o...

...Sections 4104.01 to 4104.20, inclusive, of the Revised Code do not affect the rights of municipal corporations under section 715.44 of the Revised Code insofar as such section provides for the regulation of the installation and inspection of boilers and boiler plants for the purpose of the prevention of the emission of smoke.

...ed in the construction of and repair to public roads, railroads, and bridges; (7) Historical steam boilers of riveted construction, preserved, restored, or maintained for hobby or demonstration use.

...(A) Unless otherwise provided by the rules adopted by the board of building standards pursuant to division (A)(4) of section 4104.02 of the Revised Code, no person shall operate a low pressure steam boiler that has more than three hundred sixty square feet of heating surface, unless one of the following applies to that person: (1) The person is licensed as a steam engineer, high pressure boiler operator, or l...

...he Revised Code. The superintendent of industrial compliance shall administer and enforce such sections and rules adopted by the board of building standards pursuant to section 4104.02 of the Revised Code. (B) The superintendent shall adopt, amend, and repeal rules exclusively for the issuance, renewal, suspension, and revocation of certificates of competency and certificates of operation, for conducting hear...

...o be furnished by the superintendent of industrial compliance. Any moneys collected under this section shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the industrial compliance operating fund created in section 121.084 of the Revised Code. (B) The superintendent shall determine if an applicant meets all the requirements for examination in accordance with rules adopted by the board of building standards under...

...petency issued by the superintendent of industrial compliance, or holders of certificates of competency or commissions issued by other states or nations whose examinations for certificates or commissions have been approved by the board of building standards, persons to inspect and stamp boilers and pressure vessels covered by the company's policies, and the superintendent shall issue to such persons commissions autho...

...may be revoked by the superintendent of industrial compliance for the incompetence of the holder thereof, or for willful falsification of any matter or statement contained in the holder's application or in a report of any inspection in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. If a certificate or commission is lost or destroyed, a new certificate or commission shall be issued in its place without another exam...

...in the office of the superintendent of industrial compliance. All unfired pressure vessels shall conform in every detail with applicable rules adopted by the board of building standards pursuant to section 4104.02 of the Revised Code.

...gistering to do so with the division of industrial compliance. (B) No person shall make any installation or major repair or modification of any boiler without first obtaining a permit to do so from the division. The permit application form shall provide the name and address of the owner, location of the boiler, and type of repair or modification that will be made. The application permit fee shall be one hundred dol...

...(A) All power boilers and high pressure, high temperature water boilers and their appurtenances shall be thoroughly inspected internally and externally and under operating conditions at intervals of not more than one year, unless approved for biennial inspection under section 4104.13 of the Revised Code, and shall not be operated at pressures in excess of the safe working pressure stated in the certificate of operati...

...s been issued by the superintendent of industrial compliance. The certificate of operation required by this section shall not be issued for any boiler which has not been thoroughly inspected during construction and upon completion, by either a general or special inspector, and which does not conform in every detail with the rules adopted by the board of building standards and unless, upon completion, such boile...

...Power boilers and high pressure, high temperature water boilers having internal continuous water treatment under the general supervision of a registered professional engineer having experience in the treatment of boiler water where said water treatment is for the purpose of controlling and limiting serious corrosion, and other deteriorating factors shall be thoroughly inspected internally and externally and under ope...

...the safety valve and the appliances for indicating the pressure and level of water in the boiler are in proper working order. No person shall remove or tamper with any safety appliances prescribed by the board of building standards, and no person shall in any manner load the safety valve to a greater pressure than that allowed by the certificate of operation. If in the judgment of the inspector it is advisable to ap...

...oner withdrawn by the superintendent of industrial compliance. The owner or user of any such boiler shall obtain an appropriate certificate of operation for such boiler, and shall not operate such boiler, or permit it to be operated unless a certificate of operation has been obtained in accordance with section 4104.17 of the Revised Code. (B) If a boiler owner or user is in compliance with sections 4104.13, 4104.17,...

...The administrator of workers' compensation, under special circumstances and with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, may adjust the rate of disbursements of compensation of benefits, which shall not in any instance exceed the maximum reimbursable relief award established by the state which the claimant would have been entitled to had the claimant not been injured.

...Employers who comply with sections 4127.01 to 4127.14 of the Revised Code, are not liable to respond in damages at common law or by statute for injury or death of any work-relief employee, wherever occurring. Employees of a noncomplying employer shall receive their compensation and benefits as if the premiums had been paid and the employer shall be liable on the same basis as a noncomplying employer under Chapter 41...

...Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code, except sections 4123.512, 4123.62, and 4123.64 of the Revised Code, apply to this chapter.

...Sections 4127.01 to 4127.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code apply to all work-relief employees who are injured and to the dependents of such as are killed, whether such injury or death occurred prior to May 17, 1935, or subsequent thereto.

...ed Code and does not refer, directly or indirectly, to any fund created and administered pursuant to Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code. (C) "Premium" means payment by or on behalf of an operator of a coal mine in Ohio who is required by the federal act to secure the payment of benefits for which he is liable under that act, which payments are to be credited to the coal-workers pneumoconiosis fund and does not refer,...

...(A) The administrator of workers' compensation shall have the same powers and duties of administration, collection, maintenance, investment, and disbursement of the coal-workers pneumoconiosis fund as are delegated and imposed upon him pursuant to Chapters 4121. and 4123. of the Revised Code, except that the powers and duties of the administrator are limited to, and exercised pursuant to those specifically authorized...

...(A) For the relief of persons who are entitled to receive benefits by virtue of the federal act, there is hereby established a coal-workers pneumoconiosis fund, which shall be separate from the funds established and administered pursuant to Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code. The fund shall consist of premiums and other payments thereto by subscribers who elect to subscribe to the fund to insure the payment of benefit...

...(A) For the purpose of sections 4131.01 to 4131.06 of the Revised Code, each subscriber shall pay premiums upon the basis and at the intervals determined by the administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors. (B) The administrator shall fix and maintain for each class of occupation and type of mining the lowest possible rates of premi...

...(A) Upon receipt of an order of compensation issued pursuant to a claim for benefits under the provisions of the federal act, the administrator of workers' compensation shall disburse from the coal-workers pneumoconiosis fund the amounts to the persons as the order directs with respect to any claims insured by a subscriber. (B) No payment shall be made with respect to or from the fund in excess of the amount of the ...

...pt for a gross abuse of discretion, the industrial commission and the individual members thereof, the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors and the individual members thereof, and the administrator of workers' compensation shall not incur any obligation or liability respecting the collection of premiums, the administration or investment of the fund, or the payment of benefits therefrom.

...t. 1251, 33 U.S.C.A. 901. (B) "Marine industry fund" means the fund created and administered pursuant to sections 4131.11 to 4131.16 of the Revised Code and does not refer, directly or indirectly, to any fund created and administered pursuant to Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code. (C) "Premium" means payment to the marine industry fund by or on behalf of a marine industry employer to secure the payment of ben...

...estment, and disbursement of the marine industry fund as are delegated and imposed upon him pursuant to Chapters 4121. and 4123. of the Revised Code, except that the powers and duties of the administrator shall be limited to, and exercised pursuant to those specifically authorized in sections 4131.11 to 4131.16 of the Revised Code. (B) The administrator shall employ the employees necessary to the discharge of his d...

..., there is hereby established a marine industry fund, which shall be separate from the funds established and administered pursuant to Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code. The marine industry fund shall consist of premiums and other payments thereto by marine industry employers who apply to the bureau of workers' compensation for permission to subscribe to the fund to insure the payment of benefits required by th...

...subscriber participation in the marine industry fund. (E) In addition to premiums required to be paid into the fund, the administrator, with the advice and consent of the board, shall fix and may adjust at any time an additional premium for the cost of administering the fund. The additional premium shall be paid by each subscriber as a part of the subscriber's total premium payment.

...ensation shall disburse from the marine industry fund the amounts to the persons as said order directs with respect to any claims insured by the marine industry fund. (B) The bureau shall disburse from the marine industry fund amounts necessary to pay the costs of any additional requirements of the federal act.

...nistration and investment of the marine industry fund, and the payment of benefits therefrom shall not create any liability upon the state. (B) Except for a gross abuse of discretion, the industrial commission and the individual members thereof, the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors and the individual members thereof, and the administrator of workers' compensation shall not incur any obligatio...

...les. (F) "Worksite employee" means an individual assigned to a client employer on a permanent basis, not as a temporary supplement to the client employer's workforce, and who is employed by both an alternate employer organization and a client employer pursuant to an alternate employer organization agreement.

...The administrator of workers' compensation shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to administer and enforce this chapter, including rules to administer and enforce division (E) of section 4133.03 of the Revised Code. The administrator may adopt rules for the acceptance of electronic filings in accordance with Chapter 1306. of the Revised Code for applications, documents, reports, and ...

...xes associated with a worksite employee independent of the terms and conditions contained in the alternate employer organization agreement between the alternate employer organization and the client employer; (3) Maintain workers' compensation coverage, pay all workers' compensation premiums, and manage all workers' compensation claims, filings, and related procedures associated with a worksite employee in complianc...

...(A) When a client employer enters into an alternate employer organization agreement with an alternate employer organization, the alternate employer organization is the employer of record and the succeeding employer for the purposes of determining a workers' compensation experience rating pursuant to Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code. (B) Pursuant to Section 35 of Article II, Ohio Constitution, and section 4123.74 o...

...A worksite employee under an alternate employer organization agreement shall not, solely as a result of being a worksite employee, be considered an employee of the alternate employer organization for purposes of general liability insurance, fidelity bonds, surety bonds, employer liability not otherwise covered by Chapters 4121. and 4123. of the Revised Code, or liquor liability insurance carried by the alternate empl...

...(A) For purposes of determining tax credits and other economic incentives that are provided by this state or any political subdivision and based on employment, worksite employees under an alternate employer organization agreement shall be considered employees solely of the client employer. (1) A client employer shall be entitled to the benefit of any tax credit, economic incentive, or similar benefit arising as the...

...s and shall not be published or open to public inspection. (G) The list described in division (B)(1) of this section shall be considered a trade secret. (H) The administrator shall establish the fee described in division (B)(2) of this section in an amount that does not exceed the cost of the administration of the initial and renewal registration process. (I) A financial statement required under division (B)(7)...

... be audited by an independent alternate public accountant authorized to practice in the jurisdiction in which that accountant is located. (1) The resulting report of the auditor shall not include either of the following: (a) A qualification or disclaimer of opinion as to adherence to generally accepted accounting principles; (b) A statement expressing substantial doubt about the ability of the alternate employe...

...alternate employer organization and rescind its status as an employer upon a finding that the alternate employer organization has done any of the following: (1) Obtained or attempted to obtain registration through misrepresentation, misstatement of a material fact, or fraud; (2) Misappropriated any funds of the client employer; (3) Used fraudulent or coercive practices to obtain or retain business or demonstrat...