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...As used in this chapter: (A) "Benefit contract" means an agreement, as described in division (A) of section 3921.19 of the Revised Code, under which a fraternal benefit society agrees to provide any benefit set forth in division (A) of section 3921.16 of the Revised Code. (B) "Benefit member" means an adult member of a fraternal benefit society who is designated by the laws or rules of the society to be eligible fo...

...(A) The principal office of any domestic fraternal benefit society shall be located in this state. The meetings of its supreme governing body may be held in any state, district, province, or territory in which the society has at least one subordinate lodge, or in any other location determined by the supreme governing body, and all business transacted at such meetings is as valid in all respects as if the meetings wer...

...(A)(1) On and after January 1, 2016, a fraternal benefit society that provides the contractual benefits listed in division (A)(1) of section 3921.16 of the Revised Code in this state in a benefit amount of greater than ten thousand dollars shall have and maintain a surplus of two million five hundred thousand dollars for all lines written. (2) On and after January 1, 2016, a fraternal benefit society that pr...

...(A) A domestic fraternal benefit society may amend its laws in accordance with the provisions of its laws by action of its supreme governing body at any regular or special meeting of that body or, if its laws so provide, by referendum. A referendum may be held in accordance with the provisions of its laws by the vote of the voting members of the society, by the vote of delegates or representatives of voting members,...

...(A) A domestic fraternal benefit society may consolidate or merge with any other society by complying with the provisions of this section. (B) The society shall file all of the following with the superintendent of insurance: (1) A certified copy of the written contract containing in full the terms and conditions of the consolidation or merger; (2) A sworn statement by the president and secretary or corresponding o...

...(A) Each fraternal benefit society authorized to do business in this state shall issue to each owner of a benefit contract a certificate specifying the amount of benefits provided under the contract. The certificate, together with any riders or endorsements attached to the certificate, the laws of the society, the application for membership, the application for insurance and declaration of insurability, if any, signe...

...No foreign or alien fraternal benefit society shall transact business in this state without a license issued by the superintendent of insurance. Any such society may be licensed to transact business in this state upon filing all of the following with the superintendent: (A) A duly certified copy of its articles of incorporation; (B) A copy of its bylaws certified by its secretary or corresponding officer; (C...

...(A) Agents of fraternal benefit societies shall be licensed in the manner provided for agents of insurance companies in Chapter 3905. of the Revised Code, and shall be required to complete continuing education as set forth in section 3905.481 of the Revised Code starting with the twenty-four-month period commencing on the first day of January of 1999. However, no written or other examination shall be required o...

...(A) Any fraternal benefit society authorized to transact business in this state shall have and maintain an agent upon whom may be served any process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served upon a society. The agent required under this section may be a natural person residing in this state or a corporation holding a license under the laws of this state that is authorized by its articles of...

...(A) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as applying to or otherwise affecting any of the following: (1) Grand or subordinate lodges of societies, orders, or associations doing business in this state that provide benefits exclusively through local or subordinate lodges; (2) Orders, societies, or associations that admit to membership only persons engaged in one or more crafts or hazardous occupations, in the s...

...In addition to the information provided under division (D)(1)(b) of section 3922.05, division (B) of section 3922.08, division (C) of section 3922.09, and division (D) of section 3922.10 of the Revised Code, an assigned independent review organization, to the extent that such documents are available and appropriate, shall consider all of the following when conducting its review: (A) The covered person's medic...

...(A) A covered person may make a request for an expedited external review, except as provided in division (I) of this section: (1) After an adverse benefit determination, if both of the following apply: (a) The covered person's treating physician certifies that the adverse benefit determination involves a medical condition that could seriously jeopardize the life or health of the covered person, or would jeop...

...(A) The superintendent of insurance shall establish and maintain a system for receiving and reviewing requests for external review for adverse benefit determinations where the determination by the health plan issuer was based on a contractual issue and did not involve a medical judgment or a determination based on any medical information, except for emergency services, as specified in division (C) of section 3922.05 ...

...The superintendent shall accredit independent review organizations as prescribed by this section. (A) The superintendent shall develop an application form to accredit and renew accreditation of an independent review organization. (B) An independent review organization seeking to be accredited by the superintendent, or to renew its accreditation, shall submit the application form and include with the form all...

...(A)(1) An independent review organization assigned pursuant to sections 3922.08, 3922.09, or 3922.10 of the Revised Code to conduct an external review shall maintain written records in accordance with the associated rules established by the superintendent, in the aggregate by state, and by the health plan issuer, on all external reviews requested and conducted during a calendar year. Each independent review ...

...(A) When a record containing information pertaining to the medical history, diagnosis, prognosis, or medical condition of a covered person is provided to the superintendent of insurance for any reason under this chapter or sections 1751.77 to 1751.87 of the Revised Code, regardless of the source, the superintendent shall maintain the confidentiality of the record. The record in the superintendent's possession i...

...No policy of sickness and accident insurance shall be delivered, issued for delivery, or used in this state unless all the following requirements are complied with: (A) The entire money and other considerations therefor are expressed therein. (B) The time at which insurance takes effect and terminates is expressed therein. (C) It purports to insure only one person, except that a policy may be issued to the head of...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Association" means a voluntary unincorporated association of insurers formed for the sole purpose of enabling cooperative action to provide sickness and accident insurance in accordance with this section. (2) "Insurer" means any insurance company authorized to do the business of sickness and accident insurance in this state. (3) "Insured" means a person covered under a group polic...

...erson does not have, or have a right to purchase, group health coverage. An individual who is, or who becomes, covered by medicare is not a qualified unemployed person. A person eligible for coverage under this section, who is also eligible for continuation of coverage under section 1751.53 or 3923.38 of the Revised Code, may elect either coverage, but not both. A person who elects continuation of coverage under eith...

...Blanket sickness and accident insurance is that form of sickness and accident insurance covering special groups of persons as enumerated in one of the following divisions: (A) Under a policy issued to any common carrier, which shall be deemed the policyholder, covering a group defined as all persons who may become passengers on such common carrier; (B) Under a policy issued to an employer, who shall be deemed the p...

...(A) Notwithstanding section 3901.71 of the Revised Code, every certificate furnished by an insurer in connection with, or pursuant to any provision of, any group sickness and accident insurance policy delivered, issued for delivery, renewed, or used in this state on or after January 1, 1972, every policy of sickness and accident insurance delivered, issued for delivery, renewed, or used in this state on or after Janu...

...(A) Notwithstanding section 3901.71 of the Revised Code, any public employee benefit plan that provides that coverage of an unmarried dependent child will terminate upon attainment of the limiting age for dependent children specified in the plan shall also provide in substance both of the following: (1) Once an unmarried child has attained the limiting age for dependent children, as provided in the plan, upon the ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Biologically based mental illness" means schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, paranoia and other psychotic disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and panic disorder, as these terms are defined in the most recent edition of the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders published by the American psychiatric associa...

... fuel; the name of the person from whom purchased or received; the date of receipt of each shipment of motor fuel; the point of origin and the point of destination of each shipment; the quantity of each of said purchases or shipments; the name of the carrier; the number of gallons contained in each car if shipped by rail; the point of origin, destination, and shipper if shipped by pipe line; or the name and owner of ...

... the Ohio motor fuel taxes paid on fuel purchased during any semiannual period ending the thirtieth day of June or the thirty-first day of December. In order to receive a refund, the retail dealer shall file with the tax commissioner, within one hundred twenty days after the thirtieth day of June and the thirty-first day of December of each year, an application for a refund stating the quantity of motor fuel ...

...he name and contact information of the purchaser, if applicable. The purchaser of the business shall withhold a sufficient amount of the purchase money to cover the amount of such taxes, interest, and penalties due and unpaid until the seller produces a receipt from the tax commissioner showing that the taxes, interest, and penalties have been paid, or until the seller produces a certificate indicating that no ...

...Every person, the state and any of its instrumentalities, any county, township, school district, or other political subdivisions and any of its instrumentalities, and any municipal corporation and any of its instrumentalities, which provides payment for health care benefits for any of its employees resident in this state, which benefits are not provided by contract with an insurer qualified to provide sickness ...

...son, other than the vendor, of the full purchase price, but not the tax, paid to the vendor in settlement of a complaint by the consumer about the property or service purchased. The commissioner may require the consumer to obtain or the vendor to provide a written statement confirming that the vendor has not refunded the tax to the consumer and has not filed an application for refund of the tax with the commission...

...(A) Every individual family sickness and accident insurance policy that provides hospital, surgical, and medical expense benefits or hospital confinement indemnity benefits, and that is delivered or issued for delivery in this state on or after January 1, 1981, shall provide covered family members the right to continue such coverage upon the death of the named insured and upon the divorce, the annulment or dissolutio...

...all withhold a sufficient amount of the purchase money to cover the amount of such taxes, interest, and penalties due and unpaid until the former owner produces a receipt from the tax commissioner showing that the taxes, interest, and penalties have been paid, or a certificate indicating that no taxes are due. If the purchaser of the business or stock of goods fails to withhold purchase money, he shall be personally ...

...ate for the period in which the sale or purchase was made, or more than four years after the return for such period was filed, whichever date is later. (B) A consumer who provides a fully completed exemption certificate pursuant to division (B) of section 5739.03 or division (E) of section 5741.02 of the Revised Code may be assessed any tax imposed by or pursuant to section 5741.02, 5741.021, 5741.022, or 5741.023 o...

...ection 5743.15 of the Revised Code may purchase or obtain tax stamps. A wholesale dealer may not sell or provide such stamps to any other wholesale dealer or any other person. (C) Any person shipping unstamped packages of cigarettes into this state to a person other than a wholesale dealer licensed under section 5743.15 of the Revised Code shall, before such shipment, file notice of the shipment with the tax c...

...in complete and accurate records of all purchases and sales of tobacco products or vapor products, and shall procure and retain all invoices, bills of lading, and other documents relating to the purchases and sales of those products. The distributor or vapor distributor shall keep open records and documents during business hours for the inspection of the tax commissioner, and shall preserve them for a period of three...

... shipment must be obtained prior to the purchase of the cigarettes. The consent for consumer shipment shall be filed with the commissioner on a form prescribed by the commissioner showing purchase of the cigarettes as consented to, and shall be accompanied by the purchaser's proof of age and any other information required by the commissioner.

...eturn, to report or pay use tax for any purchase made during the tax year on which the taxpayer has paid any sales tax to this state or any other state at the time of the purchase.

... the dollar amount of contributions and purchases that a taxpayer, or a taxpayer and the taxpayer's spouse, may deduct during a taxable year under that section with respect to each beneficiary for whom contributions or purchases are made.

...nses paid by the account owner for home purchase costs for the account owner's primary residence and account fees imposed on the account owner. (6) "Primary residence" means a homestead located in this state that is or will be the account owner's principal place of residence at the time the eligible expenses are incurred and for which the account owner receives or will receive a reduction in real property taxes or...

... the trust has an interest other than a purchased interest, and shall allocate to principal an amount received as a distribution of principal from such a trust or estate. If a trustee purchases an interest in a trust that is an investment entity, or a decedent or donor transfers an interest in such a trust to a trustee, section 5812.18 or 5812.38 of the Revised Code applies to a receipt from the trust.

...a gift or gifts made to the minor, or a purchase made by the custodian for the minor, in a manner prescribed in sections 5814.01 to 5814.10 of the Revised Code; (2) The income from the custodial property; (3) The proceeds, immediate and remote, from the sale, exchange, conversion, investment, reinvestment, or other disposition of the securities, money, life or endowment insurance policies, annuity contracts, benefi...

... service commission of any county shall purchase or provide a veterans plot in any cemetery in such county or municipal corporation where no burial plot is provided, for the burial, removal, and reinterment of the bodies of neglected and indigent veterans. The expense of such purchase shall be filed with and audited by the county auditor, who shall issue a warrant for it upon the county treasurer, who shall pay such...

...y in which the cemetery is situated may purchase a space for the grave of the veteran or the veteran's cremated remains, provide for the care of the plot, and pay the amount of the purchase price and maintenance cost from the funds in the treasury of the county, township, or municipal corporation.

...icipal corporation may acquire lands by purchase or deed of gift for the purpose of providing a suitable site and grounds in such county for veterans' facilities to be constructed, maintained, and operated by the United States, and may grant the ownership or use and occupation of such lands to the United States for such purpose. Payment for lands so purchased shall be made from the general fund of the county.

...pplies for the veterans' homes shall be purchased as provided in sections 125.04 to 125.15 of the Revised Code. The director shall appoint a superintendent of the Ohio veterans' homes upon any terms that are proper, and the superintendent, with the advice and consent of the director, shall employ aides, assistants, and employees, and perform other duties that may be assigned to the superintendent by the directo...

...nsist of all amounts received from the purchase of Ohio national guard service medals for eligible national guard service members as authorized by the general assembly. The moneys in the fund shall be used to purchase additional medals. Investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to the fund.

...riations are made for that purpose, may purchase and keep ready for use, or issue to the Ohio national guard or the Ohio military reserve, as the best interests of the service require, such amount and kind of camp and garrison equipage as are necessary. He shall see that all military stores, both the property of the state and of the United States, are properly cared for and kept in good order ready for use, and tha...

...ed by the board to be less than that of purchase or condemnation, the board may acquire land and construct, acquire, or install buildings, structures, or improvements, similar in purpose, to be exchanged for the aforementioned buildings, structures, or improvements under contracts entered into between the owner of them and the district; (K) Hold, encumber, control, acquire by donation, purchase, or condemnation, con...

... of land or other property it wishes to purchase, and for which it wishes appraisals to be made, both for easement and for purchase in fee simple. The board of directors may, if it deems best, specify in case of any property the particular purpose for which and the extent to which an easement in the same is desired, describing definitely such purpose and extent. The board of appraisers shall appraise all damages whic...

...o the board. The board may determine to purchase the facilities or any part of them at a cost that, after consultation with the county sanitary engineer, it finds to be reasonable. Subject to and in accordance with this division and division (B) or divisions (C), (D), and (E) of section 6103.05 of the Revised Code, the board may purchase the facilities or any part of them by negotiation. For the purpose of paying th...

...drologic unit watershed, credits may be purchased from another provider in the state. When mitigation will occur at an approved wetland mitigation bank, in-lieu fee mitigation program, or mitigation paid to the department of natural resources, mitigation credits shall be acquired based on the acreage of streambed impacted and proof of acquisition shall be sent to the director of environmental protection before any im...

...of county commissioners may acquire, by purchase, sewerage systems and disposal systems serving sewer districts within its county, constructed by any person under the authority granted by sections 6112.02 and 6112.03 of the Revised Code. If the board and owners thereof are unable to agree upon its purchase and sale, or the amount of compensation therefor, the board may appropriate the sewerage system and disposal sys...