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...(A) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section, all hospital facilities purchased, acquired, constructed, or owned by a public hospital agency, or financed in whole or in part by obligations issued by a public hospital agency, and used, or to be used when completed, as hospital facilities, and the income therefrom, are exempt from all taxation within this state, including ad valore...

...(A) If obligations, otherwise subject to the limits of section 133.05 or 133.07 of the Revised Code, are issued by a public hospital agency to pay costs of a hospital facility with respect to which such public hospital agency is to receive payments under a lease or agreement entered into by such public hospital agency pursuant to section 140.03, 140.05, 339.09, 339.14, or 749.35 of the Revised Code, then at all times...

...There is hereby created in the department of natural resources the office of real estate and land management. The director of natural resources shall appoint a chief to administer the office. The chief shall act as the director's designee and carry out the duties of the chief on behalf of the director. Subject to the approval of the director, the chief shall employ assistants and other employees as necessary to execu...

...(A) The office of real estate and land management shall do all of the following: (1) Except as otherwise provided in the Revised Code, coordinate and conduct all real estate functions for the department of natural resources, including acquiring land by purchase, lease, gift, devise, bequest, appropriation, or otherwise; administering grants through sales, leases, exchanges, easements, and licenses; performing invent...

...The chief of the office of real estate and land management or an employee of the office may enter upon lands to make surveys and inspections when necessary for the purposes of this chapter. The chief shall provide reasonable notice of any proposed entry to the owner or person in possession of the land to be surveyed or inspected not less than forty-eight hours and not more than thirty days prior to the date of entry....

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Coastal area" means the waters of Lake Erie, the islands in the lake, and the lands under and adjacent to the lake, including transitional areas, wetlands, and beaches. The coastal area extends in Lake Erie to the international boundary line between the United States and Canada and landward only to the extent necessary to include shorelands, the uses of which have a direct and significa...

...(A) The department of natural resources is hereby designated the lead agency for the development and implementation of a coastal management program. The director of natural resources: (1) Shall develop and adopt the coastal management program document. The director shall cooperate and coordinate with other agencies of the state and its political subdivisions in the development of the document. Before adopting the do...

...Any rule adopted under division (A)(3) of section 1506.02 of the Revised Code shall remain in effect for not more than six years after the effective date of the rule.

...Except as otherwise provided in this section, no project or activity directly affecting the coastal area that is proposed by or subject to the approval of any agency of the state shall be implemented or approved until the director of natural resources has determined that it is consistent with the policies in the coastal management program document. Any agency of the state may develop and adopt a statement of coastal ...

...(A) No later than September 15, 1989, each county or municipal corporation within whose jurisdiction is a coastal flood hazard area shall either participate in and remain in compliance with the national flood insurance program or shall adopt resolutions or ordinances governing the coastal flood hazard area that meet or exceed the standards required for participation in the regular phase of the national flood insuranc...

...The director of natural resources shall prepare and maintain a current inventory of public access facilities and areas for the Ohio shoreline of Lake Erie, including, without limitation, shoreline parks, cultural resources, natural areas, wildlife refuges, harbors of refuge, boat launch ramps, shoreline fishing areas, and beaches. No later than December 31, 1994, the director shall evaluate public access to Lake Erie...

...tion 5302.30 of the Revised Code that a parcel or any portion of a parcel of real property that the person owns has been included in a Lake Erie coastal erosion area identified under this section shall not sell or transfer any interest in that real property unless the person first provides written notice to the purchaser or grantee that the real property is included in a Lake Erie coastal erosion area. The written no...

...lopment of a permanent structure on any parcel of property within a Lake Erie coastal erosion area if that property is not adjacent to Lake Erie. (C) The director or his authorized representative may issue a stop work order whenever the director finds, after inspection, that any erection, construction, or redevelopment is being conducted within a Lake Erie coastal erosion area in violation of division (B) of this s...

...Any person who is adversely affected by the final identification of a Lake Erie coastal erosion area under division (D) of section 1506.06 of the Revised Code or any other final administrative act of the director of natural resources under this chapter or who receives denial of a permit application under rules adopted under division (A) of section 1506.07 of the Revised Code, within thirty days after the identificati...

...(A)(1) No person shall violate or fail to comply with any provision of this chapter, any rule or order adopted or issued under it, or any condition of a permit issued in accordance with rules, resolutions, or ordinances adopted under it. (2) The attorney general, upon written request of the director of natural resources, shall bring an action for an injunction against any person who has violated, is violating, or is...

...It is hereby declared that the waters of Lake Erie consisting of the territory within the boundaries of the state, extending from the southerly shore of Lake Erie to the international boundary line between the United States and Canada, together with the soil beneath and their contents, do now belong and have always, since the organization of the state of Ohio, belonged to the state as proprietor in trust for the peop...

...(A) "Territory," as used in this section, means the waters and the lands presently underlying the waters of Lake Erie and the lands formerly underlying the waters of Lake Erie and now artificially filled, between the natural shoreline and the international boundary line with Canada. (B) Whenever the state, acting through the director of natural resources, upon application of any person who wants to develop or improv...

...(A)(1) There is hereby created the Ohio Lake Erie commission, consisting of the directors of environmental protection, natural resources, health, agriculture, transportation, and development services, or their designees, the two board members of the great lakes protection fund board appointed by the governor under section 1506.22 of the Revised Code who shall serve as ex officio nonvoting members, and five additional...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the state agency whose director has been designated to administer the Lake Erie protection fund under section 1506.23 of the Revised Code is hereby designated the lead agency for the implementation in this state of the purposes of the great lakes protection fund, a regional trust fund established by the great lakes states to advance the principles, goals, and ob...

...(A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the Lake Erie protection fund, which shall consist of money deposited into the fund from the issuance of Lake Erie license plates under section 4503.52 of the Revised Code, money awarded to the state from the great lakes protection fund, and donations, gifts, bequests, and other moneys received for the purposes of this section. Not later than the first day of June eac...

...As used in sections 1506.30 to 1506.36 of the Revised Code: (A) "Abandoned property" means a submerged aircraft; a submerged watercraft, including a ship, boat, canoe, skiff, raft, or barge; the rigging, gear, fittings, trappings, and equipment of a submerged aircraft or watercraft; the personal property of the officers, crew, and passengers of a submerged aircraft or watercraft; the cargo of a submerged airc...

...(A) In order to provide special protection for abandoned property and features and formations in Lake Erie having historical, archaeological, recreational, ecological, geological, environmental, educational, scenic, or scientific value, the director of natural resources, with the approval of the director of the Ohio history connection, may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing L...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, any person who wishes to recover, alter, salvage, or destroy any abandoned property that is located on, in, or in the immediate vicinity of and associated with a submerged watercraft or aircraft in Lake Erie shall obtain a permit to do so from the director of natural resources that also has been approved by the director of the Ohio history connection. ...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (B) and (D) of this section, the ownership of and title to all abandoned property that is submerged in Lake Erie are in the state, which holds title in trust for the benefit of the people of the state. (B) Any person who recovers or salvages abandoned property from Lake Erie without a permit as provided in division (B) of section 1506.32 of the Revised Code shall file a ...

...(A) The director of natural resources, with the approval of the director of the Ohio history connection, shall establish policies and may adopt rules necessary to implement and administer sections 1506.30 to 1506.36 of the Revised Code. Not less than forty-five days prior to adopting a rule under this section or section 1506.31 of the Revised Code, the director of natural resources shall send a copy of the proposed r...