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...For purposes of establishing and maintaining a drug database pursuant to section 4729.75 of the Revised Code, the state board of pharmacy shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to carry out and enforce sections 4729.75 to 4729.83 of the Revised Code. The rules shall specify all of the following: (A) A means of identifying each patient, each terminal distributor of dangerous drugs, each...

...(A) Ownership of investment securities in a corporation, including bonds, debentures, notes, other debt instruments, or shares, shall not be considered an ownership or investment interest described in division (A)(1) of section 4731.66 of the Revised Code if all of the following apply: (1) The securities were purchased on terms generally available to the public. (2) The corporation is listed for trading on the New ...

...The department of health shall establish a procedure to provide special recognition annually to one or more persons issued a license under this chapter to practice medicine and surgery, osteopathic medicine and surgery, or podiatric medicine and surgery who volunteer medical services to medically underserved areas of this state or to charitable shelters or clinics. Any person may nominate a license holder for conside...

...There is hereby created the Ohio real estate commission, consisting of five members who shall be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate. Four members shall have been engaged in the real estate business as licensed real estate brokers in the state for a period of ten years immediately preceding the appointment. One member shall represent the public. Terms of office shall be for five years...

...estate, discuss terms or conditions of purchasing the foreign real estate, or otherwise participate in negotiations with regard to the offering or sale of the foreign real estate. (5) If a foreign real estate transaction is consummated with a buyer who was referred by the owner to the person who sold the owner that foreign real estate, the occurrence of the referral shall be disclosed by the person who sold th...

...As used in sections 4735.51 to 4735.74 of the Revised Code: (A) "Agency" and "agency relationship" mean a relationship in which a licensee represents another person in a real estate transaction. (B) "Agency agreement" means a contract between a licensee and a client in which the client promises to pay the broker a valuable consideration, or agrees that the licensee may receive a valuable consideration from another,...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Residential real property" has the same meaning as in section 5302.30 of the Revised Code. (2) "Residential premises" and "tenant" have the same meanings as in section 5321.01 of the Revised Code. (B) A licensee shall enter into a written agency agreement before doing any of the following: (1) Advertising or showing residential real property on behalf of a seller; (2) Makin...

...n or an entity that has an intention of purchasing, leasing, or exchanging the real property.

...(A) The brokerage and management level licensees in a brokerage in which there is a dual agency relationship described in section 4735.70 of the Revised Code shall do each of the following: (1) Objectively supervise the affiliated licensees in the fulfillment of their duties and obligations to their respective clients; (2) Refrain from advocating or negotiating on behalf of either the seller or the purchaser; (3) ...

...(A) The superintendent of real estate shall, within one year after April 3, 2025, adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that require a licensee, prior to listing residential real estate for sale, exchange, or purchase, to provide to the seller a disclosure form, developed and maintained by the division of real estate, that outlines both of the following: (1) The federal and state laws that...

...No person shall purchase or receive by sale, barter, exchange, or otherwise, an article mentioned in sections 4737.01 to 4737.03, inclusive, of the Revised Code, of a minor or apprentice, knowing or having reason to believe him to be such, or from any person between the hours of nine p.m. and seven a.m.

...A scrap metal dealer and a person who purchases, sells, exchanges, or receives secondhand articles may use an electronic device that decodes and records information contained in the metallic strip on a personal identification card to record a person's name, address, and photograph in lieu of making a copy of a person's personal identification card to comply with the requirements of sections 4737.01, 4737.04, an...

...No municipal corporation or other political subdivision shall enforce any regulation that is in conflict with sections 4737.01 to 4737.043 of the Revised Code. Consistent with the power of municipal corporations to exercise their rights under Article XVIII, Section 3 of the Ohio Constitution and recognizing the need for uniform commercial practices across this state, by analogy to Am. Financial Servs. Assn et ...

...(A) Except as specified in divisions (B), (C), (D), (E), and (F) of this section, whoever violates sections 4737.01 to 4737.11 of the Revised Code, shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one thousand dollars and the costs of prosecution. (B) Whoever violates division (F)(2) of section 4737.10 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (C) Whoever fails to comply with ...

...No person who is not an authorized purchaser shall purchase a salvage motor vehicle from a salvage motor vehicle auction or salvage motor vehicle pool.

...(A) The motor vehicle salvage dealer's licensing board shall make rules requiring motor vehicle salvage dealers, salvage motor vehicle auctions, and salvage motor vehicle pools to keep records of transactions involving purchase or sale of salvage motor vehicles or parts and may require the records to be kept for a reasonable length of time. (B) No motor vehicle salvage dealer, salvage motor vehicle pool, or salvage ...

...(A) There is hereby created within the department of commerce the residential construction advisory committee consisting of nine persons the director of commerce appoints. The advisory committee shall be made up of the following members: (1) Three shall be general contractors who have recognized ability and experience in the construction of residential buildings. (2) Two shall be building officials who have experie...

...Upon the failure of any person to reclaim an animal left in the care of a licensed veterinarian or registered kennel owner, the veterinarian or kennel owner, at the end of a ten-day period starting with the day he gives notice as required under this section, shall be considered the legal owner of the animal and may send it to an animal shelter or pound. The veterinarian or kennel owner shall give written notice, eith...

...(A) In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the state speech and hearing professionals board may revoke, suspend, place on probation, or, except as provided in division (B) of this section, refuse to issue or renew a license or permit or reprimand a licensee or permit holder if the person who holds such license or permit: (1) Is convicted of a disqualifying offense or a crime of moral turpitude as thos...

...(A) The state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services shall adopt rules under section 4765.11 of the Revised Code to establish and administer a grant program under which grants are distributed according to the following priorities: (1) First priority shall be given to emergency medical service organizations for the training of personnel, for the purchase of equipment and vehicles, and to...

...This chapter does not apply to any of the following: (A) A person rendering services with an ambulance in the event of a disaster situation when licensees' vehicles based in the locality of the disaster situation are incapacitated or insufficient in number to render the services needed; (B) Any person operating an ambulance, ambulette, rotorcraft air ambulance, or fixed wing air ambulance outside this state unles...

...(A) No employee, director, officer, or agent of an appraisal management company licensed under this chapter shall recklessly influence or attempt to influence the development, reporting, or review of an appraisal through coercion, extortion, collusion, compensation, instruction, inducement, intimidation, bribery, or in any other manner, including the following: (1) Withholding or threatening to withhold timely paym...

...The public utilities commission may procure all necessary books, maps, charts, stationery, instruments, office furniture, apparatus, and appliances, including telephone service, and may purchase from the interstate commerce commission blank forms for the use of railroads and other utilities in making their annual reports, necessary for the proper administration of the affairs of the public utilities commission,...

...(A) For the sole purpose of maintaining and administering the public utilities commission and exercising its supervision and jurisdiction over the railroads and public utilities of this state, an amount equivalent to the appropriation from the public utilities fund created under division (B) of this section to the public utilities commission for railroad and public utilities regulation in each fiscal year shall be a...

...(A) No public utility shall make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any person, firm, corporation, or locality, or subject any person, firm, corporation, or locality to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage. (B)(1) A natural gas company that is a public utility shall offer its regulated services or goods to all similarly situated consumers, including persons with which it is a...