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...(A) For every design-build contract, the public authority planning to contract for design-build services, in consultation with the criteria architect or engineer, shall evaluate the statements of qualifications submitted by design-build firms specifically regarding the project, including the design-build firm's proposed architect or engineer of record. Following this evaluation, the public authority shall: (1...

...If a professional design firm selected as the criteria architect or engineer creates the preliminary criteria and design criteria for a project and provides professional design services to a public authority to assist that public authority in evaluating the design-build requirements provided to the public authority by a design-build firm pursuant to section 153.692 of the Revised Code, that professional design ...

...(A) Except for any person providing professional design services of a research or training nature, any person rendering professional design services to a public authority or to a design-build firm, including a criteria architect or engineer and person performing architect or engineer of record services, shall have and maintain, or be covered by, during the period the services are rendered, a professional liability in...

...(A) Any public authority planning to contract for professional design services or design-build services may adopt, amend, or rescind rules, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, to implement sections 153.66 to 153.70 of the Revised Code. (B) Sections 153.66 to 153.70 of the Revised Code do not apply to any of the following: (1) Any project with an estimated professional design fee of twenty-five ...

...A design-build firm contracted for design-build services by a public authority may do either of the following: (A) Perform design, construction, demolition, alteration, repair, or reconstruction work pursuant to such contract; (B) Perform professional design services when contracted by a public authority for design-build services even if the design-build firm is not a professional design firm.

...The requirements set forth in sections 153.65 to 153.72 of the Revised Code for the bidding, selection, and award of a contract for professional design services or design-build services by a public authority prevail in the event of any conflict with any other provision of this chapter.

...(A) A contract for the construction, demolition, alteration, repair, or reconstruction of a public improvement entered into on or after April 16, 1993, shall be deemed to include the provisions contained in division (B) of this section. (B)(1) In regard to any bond filed by the contractor for the work contracted, the contracting authority, in its sole discretion, may reduce the bond required by twenty-five pe...

...(A)(1)(a) If a professional design firm provides work, services, studies, planning, surveys, or preparatory work in connection with a public improvement, a public authority may require, via a provision in a public improvement contract or subcontract, that the professional design firm indemnify the public authority and its officers and employees for liabilities the public authority, officer, or employee incurs for the...

...(A) As used in this section, "public improvement" means any of the following: (1) A road, bridge, highway, street, or tunnel; (2) A waste water treatment system or water supply system; (3) A solid waste disposal facility or a storm water and sanitary collection, storage, and treatment facility; (4) Any structure or work constructed by a state agency or by another person on behalf of a state agency pursuant to a c...

...(A) Whoever violates section 153.58 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars. (B) A person who purchases or provides steel products in violation of division (A) of section 153.011 of the Revised Code shall pay a civil penalty equal to one and one-half times the purchase price of the steel products purchased or provided in violation of that section.

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Persona" means an individual's name, voice, signature, photograph, image, likeness, or distinctive appearance, if any of these aspects have commercial value. (B) "Commercial purpose" means the use of or reference to an aspect of an individual's persona in any of the following manners: (1) On or in connection with a place, product, merchandise, goods, services, or other commercial acti...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person shall not use any aspect of an individual's persona for a commercial purpose: (1) During the individual's lifetime; (2) For a period of sixty years after the date of the individual's death; or (3) For a period of ten years after the date of death of a deceased member of the Ohio national guard or the armed forces of the United S...

...Except as otherwise provided in section 2741.09 of the Revised Code, this chapter applies only to the following: (A) The right of publicity in the persona of an individual whose domicile or residence is in this state on or after the effective date of this section; (B) The right of publicity in the persona of an individual who died on or after January 1, 1998, and whose domicile or residence was in this state on the...

...The right of publicity in an individual's persona is freely transferable and descendible, in whole or in part, by any of the following means: (A) Contract; (B) License; (C) Gift; (D) Trust; (E) Will; (F) Operation of the laws of intestate succession applicable to the state administering the majority of the real and personal property of an individual who died intestate, regardless of whether that state recognize...

...(A) Except as otherwise expressly provided in an agreement transferring an aspect of an individual's right of publicity, only the following persons may grant consent to use an individual's persona for a commercial purpose: (1) A person or persons, including the individual whose right of publicity is at issue, who collectively own more than fifty per cent of the individual's right of publicity, subject to the terms o...

...(A) The following persons may bring a civil action to enforce the rights set forth in this chapter: (1) A person or persons, including an individual whose right of publicity is at issue, who collectively own all of an individual's right of publicity, subject to any licenses regarding that right of publicity; (2) A person, including a licensee of an individual's right of publicity, who is expressly authorized in wri...

...(A)(1) A person who violates section 2741.02 of the Revised Code is liable in a civil action to the person injured by the violation for the following: (a) Actual damages, including any profits derived from and attributable to the unauthorized use of an individual's persona for a commercial purpose as determined under division (A)(2) of this section; (b) At the election of the plaintiff and in lieu of actual damages...

...The remedies provided for in this chapter are in addition to any other remedies provided for by state or federal statute or common law.

...(A) This chapter does not apply to any of the following: (1)(a) A literary work, dramatic work, fictional work, historical work, audiovisual work, or musical work regardless of the media in which the work appears or is transmitted, other than an advertisement or commercial announcement not exempt under division (A)(1)(d) of this section; (b) Material that has political or newsworthy value; (c) Original works of fi...

...Whoever violates division (A)(3) of section 2741.02 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. A criminal penalty imposed under this section is cumulative to a civil remedy under Chapter 2741. of the Revised Code.

...ct against an imminent threat to public health or safety; (3) A legal action brought against a person primarily engaged in the business of selling or leasing goods or services, if the cause of action arises out of communication related to the person's sale or lease of the goods or services; (4) A survivorship claim or a legal action seeking recovery for bodily injury or wrongful death, or statements made regardin...

...Not later than sixty days after a party is served with a complaint, cross-claim, counterclaim, third-party claim, or other pleading that asserts a cause of action to which this chapter applies, the party may file a motion for expedited relief to dismiss the civil action or claim. The court may extend the sixty-day period to file the motion for expedited relief for good cause shown.

...ct against an imminent threat to public health or safety.

...(A)(1) The court shall conduct a hearing not later than sixty days after the filing of a motion for expedited relief, unless the court orders a later hearing to allow for limited discovery under section 2747.03 of the Revised Code or delays the hearing for other good cause. (2) If the court orders a later hearing to allow for limited discovery, the court shall conduct the hearing not later than sixty days after the...

...(A) If the court grants a motion for expedited relief under section 2747.04 of the Revised Code, the court shall award reasonable attorney's fees, court costs, and other reasonable litigation expenses to the moving party. The court shall not fail to award, or reduce an award of, attorney's fees, court costs, and other reasonable litigation expenses under this division on the grounds that the representation of the mov...