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...(A) As used in this section, "violation" means a violation of any provision of this chapter in connection with the sale of securities under sections 1707.05 to 1707.058 of the Revised Code where the filing is made pursuant to division (K) of section 1707.051 of the Revised Code and the securities are sold through an OhioInvests portal. (B)(1) If the division of securities finds, after notice and opportunity for a h...

...Whoever commits any act described in division (A) of section 1707.042 or section 1707.44 of the Revised Code is guilty of a violation of sections 1707.01 to 1707.50 of the Revised Code and the following apply to the offender: (A) If the value of the funds or securities involved in the offense or the loss to the victim is less than one thousand dollars, the offender is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree, and the...

...: (A) "Beneficiary form" means a registration of a security that indicates the present owner of the security and the intention of the present owner regarding the person who will become the owner of the security upon the death of the present owner. (B) "Devisee" means any person designated in a will to receive a disposition of real or personal property. (C) "Heirs" means those persons, including the surviving spous...

...Only individuals whose registration of a security shows sole ownership by one individual or multiple ownership by two or more individuals with a right of survivorship, rather than ownership as tenants in common, may obtain registration in beneficiary form. Multiple owners of a security registered in beneficiary form hold as joint tenants with a right of survivorship and not as tenants in common.

...er agent or the office making the registration is located, or the state listed as the address of the owner at the time of registration. A registration governed by the laws of a jurisdiction in which a law similar to sections 1709.01 to 1709.11 of the Revised Code is not in force or was not in force when a registration in beneficiary form was made is nevertheless presumed to be valid and authorized as a matter of cont...

...ered in beneficiary form when the registration includes a designation of a beneficiary to take the ownership of the security at the time of the death of the owner or the deaths of all multiple owners.

...Registration in beneficiary form may be shown by the words "transfer-on-death" or the abbreviation "TOD," after the name of the registered owner and before the name of a beneficiary.

...ransfer-on-death beneficiary on a registration in beneficiary form has no effect on ownership until the death of the owner of a security. A registration in beneficiary form of a security may be canceled or changed at any time by the sole owner or all of the then surviving owners of the security, without the consent of the beneficiary.

...Subject to the limitations of section 5731.39 of the Revised Code, on the death of a sole owner or the last to die of all multiple owners, ownership of a security registered in beneficiary form shall pass to the beneficiary or beneficiaries who survived all owners. On proof of death of all owners and compliance with any applicable requirements of the registering entity, but subject to the limitations of section 5731....

...r to accept requests for security registration in beneficiary form. If a registration in beneficiary form is offered by a registering entity, the owner requesting registration in beneficiary form assents to the protections given to the registering entity by sections 1709.01 to 1709.11 of the Revised Code. (B) By accepting a request for registration in beneficiary form of a security, a registering entity agrees that ...

...ransfer-on-death resulting from a registration in beneficiary form is effective by reason of the contract regarding the registration between the owner of the security and the registering entity and by reason of sections 1709.01 to 1709.11 of the Revised Code and is not testamentary. (B) Sections 1709.01 to 1709.11 of the Revised Code do not limit the rights of creditors of the owners of securities against beneficiar...

...stering entity offering to accept registrations in beneficiary form may establish the terms and conditions under which it will receive and implement requests for registration in that form, including requests for cancellation of previously registered transfer-on-death beneficiary designations and requests for reregistration to effect a change of beneficiary. The terms and conditions so established may provide for prov...

...niform transfer-on-death security registration act." (B) Sections 1709.01 to 1709.11 of the Revised Code shall be liberally construed and applied to promote their underlying purposes and policy and to make uniform the laws with respect to the subject of those sections among states enacting similar laws. (C) Unless displaced by particular provisions of sections 1709.01 to 1709.11 of the Revised Code, the principles ...

... believers, congregation, society, corporation, convention, or association that is formed primarily or exclusively for religious purposes and that is not formed for the private profit of any person. (C) "Church property" means property that is described as being exempt from taxation under division (A)(2) of section 5709.07 of the Revised Code and that the county auditor has entered on the exempt list compiled unde...

...he boundaries of any one municipal corporation, any one township, or any combination of municipal corporations and townships within a single county, or counties that adjoin one another, for the purpose of developing and implementing plans for public improvements and public services that benefit the district. A district may be created by petition of the owners of real property within the proposed district, or by an ex...

...Any owner of an interest in real property that is located within a proposed or existing special improvement district who enters into a contract to transfer the interest shall give to the transferee of the interest within the specified period of time both of the following: (A) Within five days after entering into the contract, each notice that the owner received under this chapter within ninety days prior to entering...

...by an existing qualified nonprofit corporation, the church is a member of the corporation at the time the district is created. A county, township, municipal corporation, or park district owning real property in the district is not a member of the district unless such entity specifically requested in writing that its property be included in the district. The identity and address of the owners shall be determined fo...

...icipal executive of each municipal corporation with territory within the boundaries of the special improvement district. The remainder of the board's members shall be members of the district. Except for the municipal executives and the appointees of the legislative authorities, and except as otherwise provided in this division, members of the board of directors shall be elected at a meeting of the entire members...

...in this chapter, the articles of incorporation or the code of regulations governing the nonprofit corporation shall provide for the method by which notice for meetings of the membership of the special improvement district is to be given and the method for voting by the membership of the district.

...on, reconstruction, enlargement, or alteration of any public improvements and the acquisition of land for the improvements. Plans for public improvements or public services may also include, but are not limited to, provisions for the following: (1) Creating and operating the district and the nonprofit corporation under this chapter, including hiring employees and professional services, contracting for insurance, a...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, an electric distribution utility may count toward its compliance with the energy efficiency and peak demand reduction requirements of section 4928.66 of the Revised Code any efficiency savings or reduction in demand produced by a special energy improvement project located in its certified territory. (B) A mercantile customer that realizes energy efficien...

...nce, repair, furnishing, equipping, operation, or improvement of any special energy improvement project by the district, between a participating political subdivision and the special improvement district, or between the special improvement district and any owner of real property in the special improvement district on which a special energy improvement project has been acquired, installed, equipped, or improved...

...Any public improvements or public services provided to a special improvement district through a public improvements or public services plan shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, any public improvements or public services provided by any participating political subdivision. A participating political subdivision may not substitute or rely in any manner upon the public improvements or public services provided to...

... any person, community improvement corporation, political subdivision as defined in division (F) of section 2744.01, or state agency as defined in section 1.60 of the Revised Code to develop, manage, or implement part or all of any plan adopted under section 1710.06 or division (F) of section 1710.02 of the Revised Code. Before contracting to implement the plan, the district shall permit any member of the district wh...

... an existing qualified nonprofit corporation, any law enforcement or fire protection service to be provided under a district's public service plan shall be provided only by contract with a participating political subdivision of the district. In the case of a district created by an existing qualified nonprofit corporation, the corporation may provide law enforcement service as provided under section 1702.8...