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...(A) An appraisal management company shall not remove the appraiser from its appraiser panel or otherwise refuse to assign requests for real estate appraisal services to the appraiser without first doing both of the following: (1) Notifying the appraiser in writing of the reasons the appraiser is being removed from the appraiser panel or is refused assignment requests for appraisal services; (2) Providing the appr...

...(A) Each appraisal management company licensed under this chapter shall maintain all of the following items for a period of at least five years from the date the appraisal report is submitted to the client: (1) The original or true copy of every request relating to the report that the appraisal management company receives from the client; (2) The original or true copy of each request sent to an appraiser who is c...

...(A) No employee, director, officer, or agent of an appraisal management company licensed under this chapter shall recklessly influence or attempt to influence the development, reporting, or review of an appraisal through coercion, extortion, collusion, compensation, instruction, inducement, intimidation, bribery, or in any other manner, including the following: (1) Withholding or threatening to withhold timely paym...

...(A) An appraisal management company licensed under this chapter shall compensate an appraiser for the completion of an appraisal within sixty days of the date on which the appraiser transmits or otherwise provides the completed appraisal to the appraisal management company or its assignees, except in cases of breach of contract or substandard performance of services. (B)(1) An appraisal management company licensed ...

...(A) Within ten business days after a person files with the division of real estate and professional licensing a written complaint against a person licensed under this chapter or any other person, the superintendent of real estate and professional licensing shall acknowledge receipt of the complaint by sending notice to the person against whom the complaint is filed that includes a copy of the complaint. That notice a...

...(A) Upon receipt of a written complaint or upon the superintendent of real estate and professional licensing's own motion, the superintendent may investigate any person that allegedly violated division (A)(1) of section 4768.02 of the Revised Code. (B) If, after investigation, the superintendent determines there exists reasonable evidence of a violation of division (A)(1) of section 4768.02 of the Revised Code, wi...

...The superintendent of real estate and professional licensing shall deposit all moneys collected under this chapter into the state treasury to the credit of the real estate operating fund created under section 4735.211 of the Revised Code.

...(A) Whoever violates division (A)(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), or (9) or division (C) of section 4768.11 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree. (B) Whoever violates division (A)(10), (11), (12), or (13) of section 4768.11 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

...charging or collecting deductibles or coinsurance required by the program. (C) "Health care practitioner" means all of the following: (1) A dentist or dental hygienist licensed under Chapter 4715. of the Revised Code; (2) A registered or licensed practical nurse licensed under Chapter 4723. of the Revised Code; (3) An optometrist licensed under Chapter 4725. of the Revised Code; (4) A dispensing optician, s...

...No health care practitioner, and no person that employs any health care practitioner, shall balance bill for any supplies or service provided to a medicare beneficiary.

...(A) The department of health shall receive complaints alleging violations of section 4769.02 of the Revised Code. (B) The department shall make findings regarding complaints of alleged violations of section 4769.02 of the Revised Code. The department shall not make findings until after doing all of the following: (1) Investigating the complaint and determining that there is a reasonable basis for it; (2) Giving no...

...(A) Health care practitioners and their employers shall make available to the department of health to inspect and copy, medical, professional, financial, and business records that are reasonably related to determining whether the practitioner or employer has violated section 4769.02 of the Revised Code. (B) No person shall fail to comply with division (A) of this section.

...In investigating possible violations of section 4769.02 of the Revised Code or conducting hearings under section 4769.03 of the Revised Code, the department of health may administer oaths, order the taking of depositions, and issue subpoenas compelling attendance of witnesses or production of documents. The subpoenas shall be served in the same manner as subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum issued for a trial of a civ...

...The department of health shall conduct all investigations and hearings under section 4769.03 of the Revised Code in a manner that protects patient confidentiality. The department shall not make public the names or other identifying information about a patient unless the patient consents. Consent is not required for the release of the information if the department determines that it possesses reliable and substantial ...

...In the case of a violator of section 4769.02 of the Revised Code who elected a hearing under division (B) of section 4769.03 of the Revised Code, an adjudication order issued under division (C) or (D) of section 4769.03 of the Revised Code may, in addition to imposing the penalties specified in those divisions, require the violator to pay the reasonable costs, not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, of the invest...

...Unless a judicial appeal is pending, all monetary penalties imposed under division (C)(3) or (D) of section 4769.03 of the Revised Code and all costs ordered to be paid pursuant to section 4769.08 of the Revised Code shall be paid to the department of health not later than thirty days after the department issues the adjudication order imposing the penalties or ordering the payment of costs. The department shall depos...

...The department of health shall notify the attorney general if any person fails to comply with a repayment order issued under division (C)(2) of section 4769.03 of the Revised Code. On receipt of the notice, the attorney general may, on behalf of the medicare beneficiary the person was ordered to repay, commence a civil action in the court of common pleas of Franklin county, the county in which the person resides, or ...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Agent contract" means any contract or agreement pursuant to which an athlete authorizes or empowers or agrees to authorize or empower at some later date an athlete agent to do any of the following: (1) Negotiate or solicit an agreement on behalf of the athlete with one or more professional sports teams for the employment of the athlete by a professional sports team; (2) Negotiate or ...

...(A) No athlete agent shall enter into an agent contract with an athlete unless the agent complies with all of the following agent contract requirements: (1) The agent contract is in writing on a form approved by the Ohio athletic commission and includes all agreements between the parties. (2) The agent contract includes in boldface, twelve-point type, on the initial page of the agent contract, the following langua...

...No athlete agent shall commence or maintain an action in any court in this state on the basis of any agent contract entered into in this state unless the contract complies with section 4771.02 of the Revised Code.

...Any agent contract entered into in violation of this chapter shall be void and unenforceable. An agent contract entered into in this state or an agent contract entered into with an athlete who is enrolled in an educational institution or institution of higher education located in this state shall be governed by Ohio law.

...The Ohio athletic commission, established under section 3773.33 of the Revised Code, shall do all of the following: (A) Review the application form of an applicant for registration as an athlete agent; (B) Issue and renew biennial certificates of registration for an athlete agent pursuant to this chapter; (C) Maintain records of every athlete agent registered in this state, including the agent's business and resid...

...No person shall serve as an athlete agent in this state unless the person holds a current and valid certificate of registration as an athlete agent issued under section 4771.08 of the Revised Code, a temporary certificate issued under section 4771.08 of the Revised Code, or a temporary certificate of convenience issued under section 4771.09 of the Revised Code.

...(A) Each individual who desires to serve as an athlete agent within this state shall first file an application for registration with the Ohio athletic commission. The applicant shall apply using a form prescribed by the commission and shall provide all the following information: (1) The name and residential address of the applicant; (2) The address of the primary location in which the applicant wishes to conduct bu...

...(A) Upon receipt of all the materials required for application for registration under section 4771.07 of the Revised Code, the Ohio athletic commission shall evaluate the information provided and issue a certificate of registration to the applicant, unless the commission finds that the applicant or an employee or representative of the applicant has committed any of the acts described in division (A) of section 4771.1...