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...(A) No processor, handler, distributor, or dealer, or agent thereof, who purchases or contracts to purchase any product from a person who produced the product, or procures for, sells, or otherwise furnishes inputs, services, or supplies to a person shall do either of the following: (1) Use duress against, coerce, or boycott the person in the exercise of the person's rights to join and belong to a cooperative; (2) D...

...(A) No handler shall commit an unfair marketing practice, as defined in division (B) of this section, whenever a marketing cooperative has been authorized by its members to bargain on behalf of its members for sales contracts with the handler and any of the following conditions exist: (1) Members of the marketing cooperative are obligated to produce and deliver agricultural products or produce under sales contracts ...

...(A) An agricultural cooperative is not a conspiracy, a combination in restraint of trade, an illegal monopoly, or an attempt to lessen competition or to fix prices arbitrarily; and the marketing agreements between such an agricultural cooperative and its members, or any other marketing agreements or sales contracts authorized or described in sections 1729.67 to 1729.70 of the Revised Code, are not illegal as such, in...

... regulations applicable to foreign corporations desiring to do business in this state. All contracts that could be made by any association incorporated under this chapter and that are made by or with such foreign associations, shall be enforceable in this state with all of the remedies set forth in this chapter.

...a member of any other cooperative, corporation, or other form of organization.

...Any exemptions under any law applying to agricultural products in the possession or under the control of the individual producer also shall apply to such products delivered by its producer members, as long as such products are in the possession or under the control of an agricultural cooperative.

...Membership stock and patronage stock of a cooperative are not to be considered securities under Chapter 1707. of the Revised Code.

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, this chapter applies to all associations, whether organized under this chapter prior to the effective date of this section or on or after that date. (B) Any law that is in conflict with this chapter shall be construed as not applying to associations provided for in this chapter.

...(A) Whoever violates section 1729.04 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than twenty-five hundred dollars for each offense. (B) Whoever violates division (A) of section 1729.68 or commits an unfair marketing practice as defined in section 1729.69 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than five thousand dollars for each offense.

...aracteristics: (a) Is a nonprofit corporation or association; (b) Has members that include or are exclusively small employers; (c) Sponsors or is part of a program to assist such small employer members to obtain coverage for their employees under one or more health benefit plans; (d) Except as provided in division (A)(1)(e) of this section, is not directly or indirectly controlled, through voting membership, repr...

...(A) It is determined and declared that the provision of health care to employees and retirees in this state and to their dependents and families is of paramount public importance to the economic and general welfare of the people of the state, that rising costs of health care have made it difficult for small employers to provide for health care benefits, that the creation of alliances of small employers to bargain wit...

...l, at least sixty days prior to the expiration of a certificate of authority, provide notice to the organization of the need for filing a renewal application. (F) A certificate of authority may be renewed for the ensuing twelve-month period commencing on the first day of July by an organization's filing an application in accordance with division (B) of this section. The superintendent shall renew the certificate of ...

...liance; (7) If it is a nonprofit corporation created under Chapter 1702. of the Revised Code, exercise all powers and authority of such corporations under the laws of the state, or, if otherwise constituted, exercise such powers and authority as apply to it under the applicable laws, and its articles, regulations, constitution, bylaws, or other relevant governing instruments. (B) A small employer health care alli...

...ification of rate adjustments, and arbitration; (10) Any responsibilities of the alliance for billing, collection, and transmittal of premiums; (11) Inclusion under the alliance program of small employers that are members of other organizations described in division (A)(1) of section 1731.01 of the Revised Code that contract with the alliance for this purpose, and conditions pertaining to those small employer membe...

...If a qualified alliance, or an alliance that, based upon evidence of interest satisfactory to the superintendent of insurance, will be a qualified alliance within a reasonable time, submits a request for a proposal on a health benefit plan to at least three insurers and does not receive at least one reasonably responsive proposal within ninety days from the date the last such request is submitted, the superintendent,...

...urer, other than a health insuring corporation, to a small employer under a qualified alliance program is subject to sections 3923.23, 3923.231, 3923.232, 3923.233, and 3923.234 of the Revised Code and any other provision of the Revised Code that requires the reimbursement, utilization, or consideration of a specific category of licensed or certified health care practitioner.

...The premiums or other charges received by an insurer from or on behalf of an enrolled small employer and eligible employees or retirees under a health benefit plan provided by the insurer under a qualified alliance program shall not be considered "premiums received" or "premium rate payments received" for purposes of division (A) of section 5725.18 and division (A) of section 5729.03 of the Revised Code, and are exem...

...ll employer that is subject to the corporation franchise tax imposed by section 5733.06 of the Revised Code, such premiums are to be deducted in determining the small employer's net income under division (B) of section 5733.05 of the Revised Code to the extent such premiums are not allowable as a deduction in determining taxable income for federal income tax purposes. (C) With respect to such a small employer that i...

...(A) Nothing contained in this chapter is intended to or shall inhibit or prevent the application of the provisions of Chapter 3924. of the Revised Code to any health benefit plan or insurer to which they would otherwise apply in the absence of this chapter, except as otherwise specified in divisions (B) and (C) of this section or unless such application conflicts with the provisions of section 1731.05 of the Revised ...

...uires: (A) "Credit union" means a corporation organized and qualified as such under this chapter. In addition to the powers enumerated in this chapter and unless restricted in this chapter, every credit union has the general powers conferred upon corporations by Chapter 1701. of the Revised Code. A credit union is a nonprofit cooperative financial institution and as such is organized and operates for the mutual bene...

...It is hereby declared to be the purpose of the general assembly in enacting Chapter 1733. of the Revised Code: (A) To enable credit unions to be formed for the purpose of promoting thrift among their members and, to that end, to establish, on a cooperative basis, facilities for savings, credit for provident and productive uses, assistance to members in budgeting and money management and the effective use of their as...

...The purpose for which a credit union may be formed is to promote thrift among its members, and to that end to establish, on a cooperative basis, facilities for savings, credit for provident and productive purposes, assistance to members in budgeting and money management and the effective use of their assets and resources, and all activities necessary or incidental thereto.

...it union presently and in the future operation of its office or headquarters, and in case of a purchase of real estate, the superintendent must first be notified in writing prior to the purchase of the real estate. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to prohibit a credit union from taking title to real estate in connection with a default in the payment of a loan, provided that title to such real estate shall not...

... from the national credit union administration operating under the "Federal Credit Union Act," 84 Stat. 994 (1970), 12 U.S.C. 1751, and any amendments thereto, or from a credit union share guaranty corporation, established under Chapter 1761. of the Revised Code, or from any insurer qualified under the laws of this state to write such insurance.

...d by a credit union share guaranty corporation licensed pursuant to Chapter 1761. of the Revised Code shall post a notice at all public entrances at its place of business and at each of its service facilities. The notice shall be not less than eight and one-half inches by eleven inches and shall include all of the following in not less than twenty-four point type: (1) A statement that members' accounts are insured b...