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...In connection with the sale or lease of a business opportunity plan, no seller or broker shall fail to provide to a prospective purchaser, at least ten business days prior to the execution of an agreement selling or leasing a business opportunity plan, a written disclosure document. (A) The disclosure document shall carry a cover sheet showing only the name of the seller, the date the disclosure statement was prepar...

...Sections 1334.01 to 1334.15 of the Revised Code do not apply to: (A) The relationship between an employer and an employee, or among general business partners; (B) Membership in a bona fide cooperative association of producers of agricultural products authorized by section 1 of the "Capper-Volstead Act," 42 Stat. 388 (1922), 7 U.S.C. 291; or an organization, operated on a cooperative basis by and for independ...

...Unless the power of attorney otherwise provides, language in a power of attorney granting general authority with respect to real property authorizes the agent to do all of the following: (A) Demand, buy, lease, receive, accept as a gift or as security for an extension of credit, or otherwise acquire or reject an interest in real property or a right incident to real property; (B) Sell; exchange; convey with o...

... by doing either of the following: (a) Purchasing, leasing, or otherwise contracting; (b) Paying the operating costs, including interest, amortization payments, repairs, improvements, and taxes, for premises owned by the principal or occupied by those individuals. (4) Provide normal domestic help, usual vacations and travel expenses, and funds for shelter, clothing, food, appropriate education, including posts...

...(A) As used in this section, "retirement plan" means a plan or account created by an employer, the principal, or another individual to provide retirement benefits or deferred compensation of which the principal is a participant, beneficiary, or owner, including any of the following plans or accounts: (1) An individual retirement account under section 408 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 26 U.S.C. 408; (2...

...(A) No supplier shall commit an unconscionable act or practice in connection with a consumer transaction. Such an unconscionable act or practice by a supplier violates this section whether it occurs before, during, or after the transaction. (B) In determining whether an act or practice is unconscionable, the following circumstances shall be taken into consideration: (1) Whether the supplier has knowingly taken adva...

...No claim or defense under this chapter may be asserted by the attorney general or any consumer against an assignee or purchaser of a mortgage loan for value unless any one of the following applies: (A) The violation was committed by the assignee or purchaser. (B) The assignee or purchaser is affiliated by common control with the seller of the loan at the time of such assignment or purchase.

...Where a sale is made pursuant to negotiations that occur at a place other than the seller's fixed location business establishment where goods or services are offered or exhibited for sale, but the agreement or offer to purchase is signed at a seller's fixed location business establishment, a presumption arises that the sale was a home solicitation sale.

...Except as provided in section 1345.26 of the Revised Code, within a reasonable time after a home solicitation sale has been cancelled or an offer to purchase has been revoked, the buyer upon demand must make available to the seller any goods delivered by the seller pursuant to the sale. The goods made available shall not have been diminished in quantity nor subjected to unreasonable wear or use. The buyer is not obli...

...As used in sections 1345.41 to 1345.50 of the Revised Code: (A) "Prepaid entertainment contract" means a contract under which the buyer of a service pays for or becomes obligated to pay for service prior to the buyer's receipt of or enjoyment of any or all of the service and that is a contract for: (1) Dance studio lessons, which include related services and instruction in ballroom or other types of dancing, and le...

...As used in sections 1345.61 to 1345.68 of the Revised Code: (A) "Contract for invention development services" means a contract by which an invention developer undertakes invention development services for a customer. (B) "Customer" means any person who enters into a contract for invention development services regarding an invention, except any person, other than an individual, who purchases invention development se...

...As used in sections 1345.71 to 1345.78 of the Revised Code: (A) "Consumer" means any of the following: (1) The purchaser, other than for purposes of resale, of a motor vehicle; (2) Any lessee of a motor vehicle in a contractual arrangement under which a charge is made for the use of the vehicle at a periodic rate for a term of thirty days or more, and title to the vehicle is in the name of a person other than the ...

...(A) If a new motor vehicle does not conform to any applicable express warranty and the consumer reports the nonconformity to the manufacturer, its agent, or its authorized dealer during the period of one year following the date of original delivery or during the first eighteen thousand miles of operation, whichever is earlier, the manufacturer, its agent, or its authorized dealer shall make any repairs as are necessa...

...(A) At the time of purchase, the manufacturer, either directly or through its agent or its authorized dealer, shall provide to the consumer a written statement on a separate piece of paper, in ten-point type, all capital letters, in substantially the following form: IMPORTANT: IF THIS VEHICLE IS DEFECTIVE, YOU MAY BE ENTITLED UNDER STATE LAW TO A REPLACEMENT OR TO COMPENSATION. In the case of a leased motor vehicle,...

...As used in sections 1345.90 to 1345.95 of the Revised Code: (A) "Assistive device" means a product designed and intended to be used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of an individual with a disability in seeing, hearing, speaking, walking, breathing, performing manual tasks, learning, working, or self-care. "Assistive device" includes a wheelchair, motorized scooter, assistive listening d...

...(A) No person shall record or cause to be recorded either of the following: (1) A credit card account number of the other party to a transaction, when a check, bill of exchange, or other draft is presented for payment; (2) The telephone number or social security account number of the other party to a transaction, when payment is made by credit card charge agreement, check, bill of exchange, or other draft. (B) Div...

...As used in sections 1349.20 to 1349.22 of the Revised Code: (A) "Banking day" means any day on which the federal reserve bank is open to the public for carrying on substantially all of its functions. (B) "Check" means a negotiable instrument that is drawn on a federally insured bank, savings and loan association, credit union, or savings bank and contains an unconditional order to pay, on demand, a specified sum in...

...Nothing in section 1349.21 of the Revised Code prohibits an escrow or closing agent from advancing funds not exceeding one thousand dollars from an escrow account or otherwise on behalf of a party to an escrow transaction for the purpose of paying incidental fees, such as conveyance and recording fees, in order to effect and close the sale, purchase, exchange, transfer, encumbrance, or lease of residential real prope...

...(A) As used in this section and in section 1349.521 of the Revised Code: (1) "Adult protected consumer" means a protected consumer who is not a minor protected consumer. (2) "Consumer credit reporting agency" means any person that, for monetary fees, dues, or on a cooperative nonprofit basis, regularly engages in whole or in part in the practice of maintaining consumers' credit information for the purpose of furnis...

...(A)(1) A representative of a protected consumer may elect to place a security freeze on the protected consumer's credit report in the manner prescribed in division (B) of this section by making a request to a consumer credit reporting agency in writing by certified mail or other comparable service or by any secured electronic method authorized by the consumer credit reporting agency. (2) A representative requesting ...

...As used in sections 1349.84 to 1349.86 of the Revised Code: (A) "Ammunition" has the same meaning as in section 2305.401 of the Revised Code and includes any ammunition component. (B) "Assign" or "assignment" refers to a financial institution's policy, process, or practice that labels, links, or otherwise associates a firearms code with a merchant or a payment card transaction in a manner that allows the financi...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Public depository" means that term as defined in section 135.01 of the Revised Code, but also means an institution which receives or holds any public deposits as defined in section 135.31 of the Revised Code. (2) "Public deposits," "public moneys," and "treasurer" mean those terms as defined in section 135.01 of the Revised Code, but also have the same meanings as are set forth in ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Public depository" means that term as defined in section 135.01 of the Revised Code, but also means an institution that receives or holds any public deposits as defined in section 135.31 of the Revised Code. (2) "Public depositor" means that term as defined in section 135.01 of the Revised Code, but also includes a county and any municipal corporation that has adopted a charter...

...(A) Except as provided in section 135.353 or 135.354 of the Revised Code, any institution described in section 135.32 of the Revised Code in receipt of a deposit of public moneys under section 135.33 or 135.35 of the Revised Code shall provide security for the repayment of all public moneys deposited in the public depository by selecting one of the following methods: (1) Securing all uninsured public deposits of eac...

...(A) The treasurer of state may accept or reject a linked deposit loan package, or any portion of it, based on the treasurer of state's evaluation of the eligible borrowers included in the package, the amount of individual loans in the package, and the amount of state funds to be deposited with an eligible lending institution. (B) Upon acceptance of the linked deposit loan package or any portion of it, the treasure...