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...of, to provide for the comfort, health, safety, and general welfare of all employees, as well as all other inhabitants of the state, to assist in the financing of air quality facilities for industry, commerce, distribution, and research, including public utility companies, to create or preserve jobs and employment opportunities or improve the economic welfare of the people, or assist and cooperate with governme...

... authority, shall be required of every contractor awarded a contract except as provided in division (K)(2) of this section, in an amount equal to at least fifty per cent of the contract price, conditioned upon the faithful performance of the contract. (L) Employ managers, superintendents, and other employees and retain or contract with consulting engineers, financial consultants, accounting experts, architects, ...

...(A) With respect to projects, and the financing thereof, for industry, commerce, distribution, or research, including public utility companies, under agreements whereby the person to whom the project is to be leased, subleased, or sold, or to whom a loan is to be made for the project, is to make payments sufficient to pay all of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the air quality revenue bonds issued f...

...The Ohio air quality development authority may at any time issue revenue bonds and notes of the state in such principal amount as, in the opinion of the authority, are necessary for the purpose of paying any part of the cost of one or more air quality projects or parts thereof, including one or more payments pursuant to a commodity contract entered into in connection with the acquisition or construction of air qualit...

...(A) The Ohio air quality development authority may enter into an agreement with the legislative authority of a municipal corporation or a board of township trustees that provides for all of the following: (1) The authority may issue revenue bonds or notes under section 3706.05 of the Revised Code for the purpose of paying any part of the cost of an air quality facility described under division (G)(12) of section 3...

...The issuance of air quality revenue bonds and notes or air quality revenue refunding bonds under Chapter 3706. of the Revised Code need not comply with any other law applicable to the issuance of bonds or notes.

...In the discretion of the Ohio air quality development authority, any air quality revenue bonds or notes or air quality revenue refunding bonds issued under Chapter 3706. of the Revised Code, may be secured by a trust agreement between the authority and a corporate trustee, which trustee may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within or without the state. Any such trust agreement may pl...

...Any holder of air quality revenue bonds issued under Chapter 3706. of the Revised Code, or any of the coupons appertaining thereto, and the trustee under any trust agreement, except to the extent the rights given by such chapter may be restricted by the applicable resolution or such trust agreement, may by suit, action, mandamus, or other proceedings, protect and enforce any rights under the laws of the state or gran...

...Air quality revenue bonds and notes and air quality revenue refunding bonds issued under Chapter 3706. of the Revised Code do not constitute a debt, or a pledge of the faith and credit, of the state or any political subdivision thereof, and the holders or owners thereof have no right to have taxes levied by the general assembly or taxing authority of any political subdivision of the state for the payment of the princ...

...All moneys, funds, properties, and assets acquired by the Ohio air quality development authority under Chapter 3706. of the Revised Code, whether as proceeds from the sale of air quality revenue bonds or as revenues, or otherwise, shall be held by it in trust for the purposes of carrying out its powers and duties, shall be used and reused as provided in such chapter, and shall at no time be part of other public funds...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the FutureGen initiative fund. The fund shall consist of money appropriated to it and money from private donations, grants, gifts, bequests, and other sources. Money in the fund shall be used to make grants for the drilling of a test well to assist the state's efforts to secure the United States department of energy FutureGen initiative pursuant to section 3706.01 of the ...

...Moneys in the funds of the Ohio air quality development authority, except as otherwise provided in any resolution authorizing the issuance of its air quality revenue bonds or in any trust agreement securing the same, in excess of current needs, may be invested in notes, bonds, or other obligations of the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or in obligations of this state or any politica...

...The Ohio air quality development authority may charge, alter, and collect rentals or other charges for the use or services of any air quality project and contract in the manner provided by this section with one or more persons, one or more governmental agencies, or any combination thereof, desiring the use or services of such project, and fix the terms, conditions, rentals, or other charges for such use or services. ...

...Each air quality project, when constructed and placed in operation, shall be maintained and kept in good condition and repair by the Ohio air quality development authority or the authority shall cause the same to be maintained and kept in good condition and repair. Each such project shall be operated by such operating employees as the authority employs or pursuant to a contract or lease with a person or governmental ...

...All air quality revenue bonds issued under this chapter are lawful investments of banks, societies for savings, savings and loan associations, deposit guarantee associations, trust companies, trustees, fiduciaries, insurance companies, including domestic for life and domestic not for life, trustees or other officers having charge of sinking and bond retirement or other special funds of political subdivisions and taxi...

...e, for the improvement of their health, safety, convenience, and welfare, and for the enhancement of their residential, agricultural, recreational, economic, commercial, and industrial opportunities and is a public purpose. As the operation and maintenance of air quality projects will constitute the performance of essential governmental functions, the Ohio air quality development authority shall not be required to pa...

...The Ohio air quality development authority may acquire by purchase, whenever it finds such purchase expedient, any land, property, rights, rights-of-way, franchises, easements, and other interests in lands as it finds to be necessary or convenient for the construction and operation of any air quality project, upon such terms and at such price as it considers reasonable and are agreed upon between the authority and th...

...The Ohio air quality development authority may acquire by appropriation pursuant to division (J) of section 3706.04 of the Revised Code any land, rights, rights-of-way, franchises, easements, or other property necessary or proper for the construction or the efficient operation of any air quality project. In any proceedings for appropriation under this section, the procedure to be followed shall be in accordance with ...

...When the Ohio air quality development authority finds it necessary to change the location of any portion of any public road, state highway, railroad, or public utility facility in connection with the construction of an air quality project, it shall cause the same to be reconstructed at such location as the division of government having jurisdiction over such road, highway, railroad, or public utility facility finds m...

...small businesses in the development of rules to be adopted under Chapter 3704. of the Revised Code that affect small businesses; (5) Aid in the dissemination of information, including air pollution requirements and control technologies, to small businesses and other interested persons; (6) Provide free, confidential assistance on individual source problems and grievances presented by small businesses; (7) Aid...

...All meetings of the Ohio air quality development authority shall be public. All final actions of the authority shall be journalized and such journal and the records of the authority shall be open to public inspection at all reasonable times, except that any records or information relating to secret processes or secret methods of manufacture or production that may be obtained by the authority or other persons acting u...

...Sections 3706.01 to 3706.20, inclusive, of the Revised Code being necessary for the welfare of the state and its inhabitants shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes thereof.

...As used in sections 3706.25 to 3706.29 of the Revised Code: (A) "Advanced energy project" means any technologies, products, activities, or management practices or strategies that facilitate the generation or use of electricity or energy and that reduce or support the reduction of energy consumption or support the production of clean, renewable energy for industrial, distribution, commercial, institutional, governme...

...(A) Determinations made by the executive director of the Ohio air quality development authority, with the affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the authority, that a particular project is an advanced energy project and is consistent with Chapter 166. of the Revised Code and Section 2p or 13 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, shall be conclusive as to the validity and enforceability of the obligatio...

...ter 119. of the Revised Code, adopt any rules necessary to implement sections 3706.25 to 3706.28 of the Revised Code.