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...(A) Every person in the business of conducting a hotel or an SRO facility shall procure, in accordance with the requirements specified in this chapter and the rules adopted pursuant to it, a license for each hotel or SRO facility conducted or proposed to be conducted. (B) No hotel or SRO facility shall be maintained, conducted, or advertised without a license. No person shall advertise, conduct, maintain, or opera...

...As used in sections 5101.60 to 5101.73 of the Revised Code: (A) "Abandonment" means desertion of an adult by a caretaker without having made provision for transfer of the adult's care. (B) "Abuse" means the infliction upon an adult by self or others of injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation, or cruel punishment with resulting physical harm, pain, or mental anguish. (C) "Adult" means any person sixty yea...

...(A) No person shall engage in making retail sales subject to a tax imposed by or pursuant to section 5739.02, 5739.021, 5739.023, or 5739.026 of the Revised Code as a business without having a license therefor, except as otherwise provided in divisions (A)(1), (2), and (3) of this section. (1) In the dissolution of a partnership by death, the surviving partner may operate under the license of the partnership for a...

...(A) As used in this chapter: (1) "Hotel" means a transient hotel, extended stay hotel, or residential hotel. "Hotel" includes any structure consisting of one or more buildings containing any combination of more than five guestrooms that are each approved by the building code official having jurisdiction and the state fire marshal as meeting the requirements for transient sleeping rooms or extended stay tem...

...(A) As used in this chapter: (1) "Person" includes one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, organizations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers, and other organized groups of persons. "Person" also includes, but is not limited to, any owner, lessor, assignor, builder, manager, broker, salesperson, appraiser, agent, employee, lending institution, and the state ...

...As used in all sections of the Revised Code relating to nuisances: (A) "Place" includes any building, erection, or place or any separate part or portion thereof or the ground itself; (B) "Person" includes any individual, corporation, association, partnership, trustee, lessee, agent, or assignee; (C) "Nuisance" means any of the following: (1) That which is defined and declared by statutes to be a nuisance; (...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Building" means, except as otherwise provided in this division, any building or structure that is used or intended to be used for residential purposes. "Building" includes, but is not limited to, a building or structure in which any floor is used for retail stores, shops, salesrooms, markets, or similar commercial uses, or for offices, banks, civic administration activities, profe...

...(A) As used in this section, "place of public assembly" means: (1) Enclosed theatres, except the lobby; opera houses; auditoriums; classrooms; elevators; rooms in which persons are confined as a matter of health care, including but not limited to a hospital room and a room in a residential care facility serving as the residence of a person living in such residential care facility; (2) All buildings and other encl...

...As used in sections 3318.01 to 3318.20 of the Revised Code: (A) "Ohio facilities construction commission" means the commission created pursuant to section 123.20 of the Revised Code. (B) "Classroom facilities" means rooms in which pupils regularly assemble in public school buildings to receive instruction and education and such facilities and building improvements for the operation and use of such rooms as may be...

...(A) As used in this section and sections 5119.341 to 5119.344 of the Revised Code: (1) "Accommodations" means housing, daily meal preparation, laundry, housekeeping, arranging for transportation, social and recreational activities, maintenance, security, and other services that do not constitute personal care services or skilled nursing care. (2) "ADAMHS board" means a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and ment...

...(A) As used in this section, "independent living facilities" means any residential housing facilities and related property that are not a nursing home, residential care facility, or residential facility as defined in division (A) of section 5701.13 of the Revised Code. (B) Lands, houses, and other buildings belonging to a county, township, or municipal corporation and used exclusively for the accommodation or suppor...

...(A)(1) A board of county commissioners may, by resolution adopted by a majority of the members of the board, levy an excise tax not to exceed three per cent on transactions by which lodging by a hotel is or is to be furnished to transient guests. The board shall establish all regulations necessary to provide for the administration and allocation of the tax. The regulations may prescribe the time for payment of the ta...

...The board of county commissioners of any county, in addition to its other powers, may purchase, for cash or by installment payments, enter into lease-purchase agreements, lease with option to purchase, lease, appropriate, construct, enlarge, improve, rebuild, equip, and furnish a courthouse, county offices, jail, county home, juvenile court building, detention facility, public market houses, retail store rooms and of...

...(A) The director of health shall adopt and publish rules governing the operation of homes, which shall have uniform application throughout the state, and shall prescribe standards for homes with respect to, but not limited to, the following matters: (1) The minimum space requirements for occupants and equipping of the buildings in which homes are housed so as to ensure healthful, safe, sanitary, and comfortab...

... the Revised Code shall be set down for trial at the earliest possible time and shall have precedence over all other cases except those involving crimes, election contests, or injunctions regardless of the position of the proceedings on the calendar of the court. In the civil action, evidence of the general reputation of the place where the nuisance is alleged to exist or an admission or finding of guilt of any...

...(A) As used in this section, "capitol square" has the same meaning as in section 105.41 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) The speaker of the house of representatives shall appoint a sergeant at arms for the house of representatives. (2) The speaker of the house of representatives shall adopt a policy specifying the minimum continuing training required for a person to maintain employment as house sergeant at arms or an as...

...Notwithstanding division (E) of section 105.41 of the Revised Code, the capitol square review and advisory board shall not place or cause to be placed any artwork, artifact, bust, memorial, monument, or other commemorative work in the hall or gallery of the house of representatives or the senate, or in the committee or other meeting rooms of the house of representatives or the senate, without first obtaining the appr...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Construction defect" means a deficiency that arises directly or indirectly out of the construction or the substantial rehabilitation of a residential building. "Substantial rehabilitation" includes the addition of a room and the removal or installation of a wall, partition, or portion of the structural design. (B) "Dwelling action" means any civil action in contract or tort for damages...

...pensation of municipal judges. In every trial in which the services of a court reporter so appointed are requested by the judge, any party, or the attorney for any party, there shall be taxed for each day's services of the court reporter a fee in the same amount as may be taxed for similar services in the court of common pleas under section 2301.21 of the Revised Code, to be collected as other costs in the case. The ...

...merchandising or services, and industrial uses located or to be located thereon, or parts thereof, belonging to the county, the primary term of such lease shall not exceed twenty-five years and the board of county commissioners may renew such leases for one or more periods of years. The total of such renewal periods, when added to the primary term of such lease, shall not exceed sixty years....

...(A) The chancellor of higher education shall adopt rules to carry out this section and as authorized under section 3333.123 of the Revised Code. The rules shall include definitions of the terms "resident," "expected family contribution," "full-time student," "three-quarters-time student," "half-time student," "one-quarter-time student," "state cost of attendance," and "accredited" for the purpose of those sections. ...

...(A)(1) Each community college district may acquire, by purchase, lease, lease-purchase, lease with option to purchase, or otherwise, construct, equip, furnish, reconstruct, alter, enlarge, remodel, renovate, rehabilitate, improve, maintain, repair, and operate, and lease to or from others, auxiliary facilities or education facilities, except housing and dining facilities, and may pay for the facilities out of availab...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this division, every campaign committee, political action committee, legislative campaign fund, political party, and political contributing entity that made or received a contribution or made an expenditure in connection with the nomination or election of any candidate or in connection with any ballot issue or question at any election held or to be held in this state shall file, on...

...(A) Whenever the director of development has determined that there is need for a housing authority in any portion of any county that comprises two or more political subdivisions or portions of two or more political subdivisions but is less than all the territory within the county, a metropolitan housing authority shall be declared to exist, and the territorial limits of the authority shall be defined, by a lett...

...Except as otherwise provided in section 3735.43 of the Revised Code, in the operation or management of housing projects a metropolitan housing authority shall observe the following with respect to rentals and tenant selection: (A)(1) It shall not provide a federally derived rent subsidy to any tenant for any dwelling in a housing project if the persons who would occupy the dwelling have an aggregate annual net inco...