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...As used in this chapter: (A) "Financial assistance" means grants, loans, loan guarantees, an equity position in a project, or loan subsidies. (B) "Grant" means funding the department of development or the Ohio housing finance agency provides for which the relevant agency does not require repayment. (C) "Housing" means housing for owner-occupancy and multifamily rental housing. (D) "Housing for owner-occupancy...

...A corporation organized as a common carrier company may: (A) Make all contracts lawful for natural persons to make for the carriage of persons and for the storage, forwarding, carriage, and delivery of property, but subject to the liabilities of natural person; (B) Lease, hold, and operate any line of railway and its appendages, before or after its completion, owned by a municipal corporation of this state, any rai...

...The managers of an unincorporated nonprofit association may authorize any mortgage, pledge, or deed of trust of all or any of the property of the association of any description or any interest in the property, for the purpose of securing the payment or performance of any obligation or contract. Unless the governing principles or the terms of any trust on which the association holds any particular property provi...

...(A) Unless otherwise limited by the trust instrument, a business trust that has made the filings described in section 1746.04 of the Revised Code has the following general powers: (1) To make contracts, incur liabilities, lend or borrow money and to receive or give security therefor; to sell, mortgage, lease, pledge, exchange, convey, transfer, and otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property and assets; to ...

...(A) Subject to the limitations of division (C) of this section, every real estate investment trust authorized to transact real estate business in this state has the following general powers: (1) To take, hold, and dispose of any estate or interest in real or personal property; (2) To sue and be sued, complain and defend, in all courts; (3) To transact its business, carry on its operations, and exercise the powers ...

...As used in sections 175.01 to 175.13 of the Revised Code: (A) "Bonds" means bonds, notes, debentures, refunding bonds, refunding notes, and other obligations. (B) "Down payment assistance" means monetary assistance for down payment closing costs, and pre-paid expenses directly related to the purchase of a home. (C) "Financial assistance" means grants, loans, loan guarantees, an equity position in a proje...

...(A)(1) The Ohio housing finance agency consists of eleven voting members and four nonvoting members. The governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint nine of the voting members. The other two voting members are the director of commerce and the director of development or their respective designees. The four nonvoting members shall be two members of the house of representatives, one from each majo...

...(A) Each domestic health insuring corporation shall, on or prior to the first day of March of every year, prepare and submit to the superintendent of insurance a report on its RBC levels as of the end of the calendar year just ended, in a form and containing such information as is required by the RBC instructions. In addition, a domestic health insuring corporation shall file its RBC report as follows: (1) With the ...

...y deferred payment shall be adequately secured and bear interest. (I)(1) A dissociated partner may maintain an action against the partnership pursuant to division (B)(2)(b) of section 1776.45 of the Revised Code to determine the buyout price of that partner's interest, any offsets under division (C) of this section, or other terms of the obligation to purchase. Any action shall be commenced within one hundred ...

...(A) Activities of a foreign limited liability partnership that do not constitute transacting business for the purpose of section 1776.86 of the Revised Code include all of the following: (1) Maintaining, defending, or settling an action or proceeding; (2) Holding meetings of its partners or carrying on any other activity concerning its internal affairs; (3) Maintaining bank accounts; (4) Maintaining offices...

...In a derivative action brought pursuant to section 1782.56 of the Revised Code, the complaint shall set forth with particularity the effort of the plaintiff to secure initiation of the action by a general partner or the reasons for not making the effort.

...All real estate owned or purchased by a limited partnership association shall be held and owned, and conveyance thereof made, in the association name. When such an association executes a deed of conveyance, bonds with or without coupons, or mortgages to secure purchase or borrowed moneys, it may acknowledge such instruments by its chairman and its secretary. The association shall sue and be sued in the association n...

...When a limited partnership association is dissolved by the voluntary action of its members, its property shall be applied as follows: (A) First, to the payment of all its debts for work and labor; and to secure such debts, in case its property is insufficient, the separate estate of each partner shall be liable without limitation or exemption, except as provided by law; (B) Second, to the satisfaction of its other ...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this division or section 1901.181 of the Revised Code, subject to the monetary jurisdiction of municipal courts as set forth in section 1901.17 of the Revised Code, a municipal court has original jurisdiction within its territory in all of the following actions or proceedings and to perform all of the following functions: (1) In any civil action, of whatever nature or remedy, of w...

...In addition to jurisdiction otherwise granted in this chapter, the environmental division of a municipal court shall have jurisdiction within its territory in all of the following actions or proceedings and to perform all of the following functions: (A) Notwithstanding any monetary limitations in section 1901.17 of the Revised Code, in all actions and proceedings for the sale of real or personal property unde...

...In addition to jurisdiction otherwise granted in this chapter, the environmental division, where established, of the municipal court shall have jurisdiction within its territory in all of the following actions or proceedings and to perform all of the following functions: (A) To exercise exclusive original jurisdiction to hear actions arising under section 3767...

... corporation, until the fine is paid or secured to be paid, or the offender is legally discharged.

...l be given to the tenant and compliance secured with section 5321.11 of the Revised Code. (9) Against tenants who have breached an obligation imposed upon them by a written rental agreement; (10) Against manufactured home park residents who have defaulted in the payment of rent or breached the terms of a rental agreement with a park operator. Nothing in this division precludes the commencement of an action unde...

...The Holocaust and genocide memorial and education commission shall do the following: (A) Gather and disseminate Holocaust and genocide information throughout this state; (B) Take inventory of current statewide Holocaust and genocide memorial and education programs and initiatives, and propose programming to fill program and initiative gaps; (C) Secure appropriate recognition of the accomplishments and contribut...

...nts, the deferred payments to be amply secured. Upon payment of the whole consideration, the auditor shall execute a deed to the purchaser, in the name and on behalf of the state. The proceeds of the sale shall be paid by the auditor to the county treasurer. If there is a regularly organized agricultural society within the county, the treasurer shall pay the greater of six hundred dollars or five per cent of t...

...An encumbrance upon real or personal property for the purpose of securing the payment of money or the performance of a covenant shall not revoke a previously executed will relating to that property.

...When it appears to be for the best interests of the entrusted estate, a fiduciary other than an executor or administrator may, with the approval of the probate court, borrow money and mortgage real property belonging to the entrusted estate, whether the real property was acquired by purchase or by descent and distribution. The fiduciary proposing to borrow money shall file in the probate court that appointed ...

...If on the final hearing of a fiduciary's complaint to borrow money and mortgage real property belonging to the trust it appears to be for the best interests of the trust that the prayer of the complaint be granted, the probate court shall fix the amount necessary to be borrowed, direct what real property shall be encumbered by mortgage to secure that amount, and issue an order to the fiduciary directing the fid...

...A guardian may lease the possession and use of the real property of the guardian's ward or any part of it for a term of years, renewable or otherwise, by perpetual lease, with or without the privilege of purchase, or may lease upon the terms and for the time that the probate court approves any lands belonging to the ward containing coal, gypsum, petroleum oil, natural gas, gravel, stone, or any other mineral su...

...If the lease made pursuant to court order, under section 2111.31 of the Revised Code is for the mining or removal of mineral or other substances on a royalty basis, within six months after the receipt of the first royalty under such lease the guardian shall report to the probate court the amount thereof and the court shall then fix a bond which will cover such royalty. At any time the court deems the bond insufficien...

...(A) As used in this section and in sections 504.19 and 504.20 of the Revised Code, "water supply facilities" means all buildings, facilities, and pipelines acquired, constructed, or operated by or leased to a township, or to be acquired, constructed, or operated by or leased to a township, that the board of township trustees considers necessary for the storage, transportation, or treatment of water resources and the ...

...(A) The board of township trustees may prepare and adopt a general plan of water supply or sewer services. After the general plan has been approved by the board, the board immediately shall notify the board of county commissioners if territory served by a county water supply facility or a county sewer district includes territory to be covered by the plan, the legislative authority of a municipal corporation that ope...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Lease-purchase agreement" has the same meaning as a lease with an option to purchase. (2) "Public obligation" has the same meaning as in section 133.01 of the Revised Code. (B) For any purpose for which a board of township trustees, a joint police district board, a township fire district, a joint fire district, a joint ambulance district, or a fire and ambulance district is author...

...(A) The director of mental health and addiction services may acquire by purchase, lease, or otherwise such real and personal property rights in the name of the state as are necessary for the purposes of the department. (B) When it is necessary for a state institution under the jurisdiction of the department to acquire any real estate, right-of-way, or easement in real estate in order to accomplish the purpos...

...When it is necessary for a state institution under the jurisdiction of the department of mental health and addiction services to acquire any real estate, right of way, or easement in real estate in order to accomplish the purposes for which it was organized or is being conducted, and the department is unable to agree with the owner of such property upon the price to be paid therefor, such property may be appropriated...

...When it is necessary for a state correctional institution to acquire any real estate, right-of-way, or easement in real estate in order to accomplish the purposes for which it was organized or is being conducted, and the department of rehabilitation and correction is unable to agree with the owner of the property upon the price to be paid therefor, the property may be appropriated in the manner provided for the appro...

...When it is necessary for an institution under the jurisdiction of the department of developmental disabilities to acquire any real estate, right-of-way, or easement in real estate in order to accomplish the purposes for which it was organized or is being conducted, and the department is unable to agree with the owner of such property upon the price to be paid therefor, such property may be appropriated in the...

...A petition for the lighting of streets and public ways under section 515.02 of the Revised Code shall specify the metes and bounds of the district in which such lights are to be erected. The signing of such petition by a property owner is a waiver by him of all claims for compensation and damages for lands necessarily appropriated for the purpose of supporting and maintaining such lights. A lighting district shall n...

...A recorded grant, reservation, or agreement creating an easement or a recorded lease of any interest in real property shall contain a reference by volume and page to the record of the deed or other recorded instrument under which the grantor claims title, but the omission of such reference shall not affect the validity of the same.

...(A) As used in this section, "agency" means every organized body, office, or agency established by the laws of the state for the exercise of any function of state government. (B) Any instrument by which the state or an agency of the state acquires an interest in real property, including any deed, transfer, grant, reservation, agreement creating an easement, or lease, shall identify the agency for whose use and benef...

...The priority of the lien of a mortgage may be waived to the extent specified by the holder of the lien in favor of any lien, mortgage, lease, easement, or other interest in the property covered by the mortgage, by writing the waiver of priority on the original mortgage and signing it, by writing the waiver of priority upon the margin of the record of that mortgage and signing it, or by a separate instrument ack...

...In a conveyance of real estate or any interest therein, all rights, easements, privileges, and appurtenances belonging to the granted estate shall be included in the conveyance, unless the contrary is stated in the deed, and it is unnecessary to enumerate or mention them either generally or specifically.

...A deed in substance following the form set forth in this section, when duly executed in accordance with Chapter 5301. of the Revised Code, has the force and effect of a deed in fee simple to the grantee, the grantee's heirs, assigns, and successors, to the grantee's and the grantee's heirs', assigns', and successors' own use, with covenants on the part of the grantor with the grantee, the grantee's heirs, assigns, an...

...(A) Every decree of registration in land registration cases shall bear the year, month, day, hour, and minute of its entry and shall be signed by the clerk of the probate court. It shall give the place of residence and post-office address of the owner of the land registered, state whether the owner is married or unmarried, and, if the owner is married, state the name of the owner's spouse. If the owner is under disab...

...As used in this chapter, except as otherwise provided: (A) "Agent" means any person who represents a developer or who acts for or on behalf of a developer in selling or offering to sell any ownership interest in a condominium development. "Agent" does not include an attorney whose representation of a developer consists solely of rendering legal services. (B) "Additional property" means land, including surface and a...

...(A) The unit owners association, through the board of directors, shall do both of the following: (1) Annually, adopt and amend an estimated budget for revenues and expenditures. The budget shall include reserves in an amount adequate to repair and replace major capital items in the normal course of operations without the necessity of special assessments, unless either of the following applies: (a) The declaration...

...Except as provided in section 5311.24 of the Revised Code, no developer or agent, directly or indirectly, shall sell or offer to sell a condominium ownership interest in a residential or water slip condominium development unless the developer or agent provides the prospective purchaser a condominium development disclosure statement that discloses fully and accurately all material circumstances or features affecting...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Assessment" means the liability for an expense that is allocated to a lot in a planned community. (B) "Bylaws" means an instrument filed with the declaration that provides for the operation of the owners association. "Bylaws" also is referred to as "regulations" pursuant to Chapter 1702. of the Revised Code. (C) "Common element" means any property in a planned community that the...

...(A) The owners association, through its board of directors, shall do both of the following: (1) Annually adopt and amend an estimated budget for revenues and expenditures. Any budget shall include reserves in an amount adequate to repair and replace major capital items in the normal course of operations without the necessity of special assessments, unless the owners, exercising not less than a majority of the voti...

...As used in Chapter 5313. of the Revised Code: (A) "Land installment contract" means an executory agreement which by its terms is not required to be fully performed by one or more of the parties to the agreement within one year of the date of the agreement and under which the vendor agrees to convey title in real property located in this state to the vendee and the vendee agrees to pay the purchase price in installme...

...The director of transportation shall have general supervision of all roads comprising the state highway system. The director may alter, widen, straighten, realign, relocate, establish, construct, reconstruct, improve, maintain, repair, and preserve any road or highway on the state highway system, and, in connection therewith, relocate, alter, widen, deepen, clean out, or straighten the channel of any watercours...

...(A) The state shall reimburse a utility for the cost of relocation of utility facilities necessitated by the construction of a highway project only in the event that the utility can evidence a vested interest in the nature of a fee interest, an easement interest, or a lesser estate in the real property it occupies in the event that the utility possesses a vested interest in such property. The utility shall pres...

...When the director of transportation, in the construction, maintenance, or repair of a road on the state highway system outside the limits of municipal corporations, relocates the road or relocates or constructs a bridge, culvert, underpass, overpass, or other structure or improvement, the highway or portion thereof from which it is proposed to divert the travel shall not thereby be deemed to be vacated or abandoned, ...

...A "limited access highway" or "freeway" is a road, highway, or street, especially designed for through traffic, over which abutters have no easement or right of access by reason of the fact that their property abuts upon such highway. Access may be allowed only at highway intersections designated by the director of transportation, board of county commissioners, or municipal authorities on roads within their jurisdict...

...The director of transportation, board of county commissioners, and municipal authorities may lay out, establish, acquire, open, construct, improve, maintain, regulate, vacate, or abandon the use of freeways within this state in the same manner in which they may lay out, establish, acquire, open, construct, improve, maintain, regulate, vacate, or abandon the use of roads, highways, or streets. Such director, board, an...

...(A) Except where otherwise expressly provided, the director of natural resources shall formulate and institute all the policies and programs of the department of natural resources. The chief of any division of the department shall not enter into any contract, agreement, or understanding unless it is approved by the director. No appointee or employee of the director, other than the assistant director, may bind the dir...

...The department of natural resources through the division of parks and watercraft may plan, supervise, acquire, construct, enlarge, improve, erect, equip, and furnish public service facilities such as inns, lodges, hotels, cottages, camping sites, scenic trails, picnic sites, restaurants, commissaries, golf courses, boating and bathing facilities, and other similar facilities in state parks reasonably necessary and us...

...To the extent provided in the order of the director or in the trust agreement securing the bonds, all admission fees, charges, and rentals and all other revenues derived from the lands and interests therein and public service facilities, for the acquisition, construction, enlargement, equipment, furnishing, or improvement of which bonds are issued, except such part as is necessary to pay the cost of maintaining, repa...

...r uses so included. (E) Persons having secured a lease or permit under this section are entitled to just compensation for the taking, whether for navigation, water commerce, or otherwise, by any governmental authority having the power of eminent domain, of structures, facilities, buildings, improvements, or uses erected or placed upon the territory pursuant to the lease or permit or the littoral rights of the person...

...ings. (G) Obligations may be further secured, as determined by the issuing authority, by a trust agreement between the state and a corporate trustee, which may be any trust company or bank having a place of business within the state. Any trust agreement may contain the resolution or order authorizing the issuance of the obligations, any provisions that may be contained in any bond proceedings, and other provisions...

...As used in this chapter and Chapter 1533. of the Revised Code: (A) "Person" means a person as defined in section 1.59 of the Revised Code or a company; an employee, agent, or officer of such a person or company; a combination of individuals; the state; a political subdivision of the state; an interstate body created by a compact; or the federal government or a department, agency, or instrumentality of it. (B) "...

...Any person who has a current hunting or fishing license, a wetlands habitat stamp, a deer or wild turkey permit, or a fur taker permit pursuant to this chapter and has lost or destroyed the license, stamp, or permit, or had the license, stamp, or permit stolen, may be reissued such license, stamp, or permit. The person shall file with the clerk of the court of common pleas an application in affidavit form or, if the ...

...e issuing authority, obligations may be secured additionally by a trust agreement or indenture between the state and a corporate trustee which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within or without this state but authorized to exercise trust powers within this state. Any such agreement or indenture may contain the resolution or order authorizing the issuance of the obligations, any pr...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Available community or technical college receipts" means all money received by a community or technical college or community or technical college district, including income, revenues, and receipts from the operation, ownership, or control of facilities, grants, gifts, donations, and pledges and receipts therefrom, receipts from fees and charges, the allocated state share of i...

...(A) The chief of the division of parks and watercraft shall collect all rentals from leases of state lands and moneys for pipe permits, dock licenses, concession fees, and special privileges of any nature from all lands and waters operated and administered by the division. The chief shall keep a record of all such payments showing the amounts received, from whom, and for what purpose collected. All such payments shal...

... the affidavit the written confirmation secured under division (A)(1) of this section. (B) The clerk of courts shall issue a certificate of title, free and clear of all liens and encumbrances, to a person that presents an affidavit that complies with all of the requirements of division (A) of this section. (C)(1) A person that owns property where a vessel or outboard motor has been left unclaimed may bring a civi...

...(A) Subject to any limitations as to aggregate amounts thereof that may from time to time be prescribed by the general assembly and to other applicable provisions of this chapter, and subject to the one-hundred-million-dollar limitation provided in Section 15 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, the director of the Ohio coal development office, on behalf of this state, with the advice of the technical advisory c...

...(A) If the executive director of the Ohio facilities construction commission wishes to enter into an installment payment contract pursuant to section 156.04 of the Revised Code or any other contract to implement one or more energy or water saving measures, the executive director may proceed under Chapter 153. of the Revised Code, or, alternatively, the executive director may request the controlling board to exe...

...able lifting jack and bar that shall be secured or carried in a tool compartment, two separate and independent braking systems properly installed and well maintained, and properly installed and well-maintained sanding devices, except that personnel carriers which transport not more than five men need not be equipped with such sanding devices. Each open type self-propelled personnel carrier shall be equipped with guar...

...er with the credit instruments, if any, secured thereby. (I) "Comparable replacement dwelling" means any dwelling that is decent, safe, and sanitary; adequate in size to accommodate the occupants; within the financial means of the displaced person; functionally equivalent to the displaced person's dwelling; in an area not subject to unreasonable adverse environmental conditions; and in a location generally not less ...

...As used in this chapter: "Bonds" means bonds, notes, or other forms of evidences of obligation issued in temporary or definitive form, including notes issued in anticipation of the issuance of bonds and renewal notes. The funding of bond anticipation notes with bonds or renewal notes and the exchange of definitive bonds for temporary bonds are not subject to section 165.07 of the Revised Code. "Bond proceedings" ...

...y may determine or authorize, including secured or unsecured loans, and, in connection therewith, enter into loan agreements and other agreements, accept notes or other forms of obligation to evidence such indebtedness and security interests to secure such indebtedness, and take such action as may be considered by it appropriate to protect such security and safeguard against losses, including, without limitation ther...

...be payable solely from the revenues and secured by security interests as provided in such bond proceedings. Bond anticipation notes may be secured, solely or additionally, by a covenant of the issuer that it will do all things necessary for the issuance of the bonds anticipated or renewal notes in appropriate amount and either exchange such bonds or renewal notes for such notes or apply the proceeds therefrom to the ...

...er which additional bonds may be issued secured by a pledge of rentals, revenues, and other income, charges, and moneys received from or a mortgage on the same pledged facilities; (G) Terms of any trust agreement or indenture of mortgage securing the bonds including authorization to enter into such agreement or indenture; (H) The deposit, application, safeguarding, and investment of funds of the issuer received or ...

...the issuing authority, the bonds may be secured by a trust agreement or indenture of mortgage between the issuer and a corporate trustee which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within or without this state but authorized to exercise trust powers within this state. (B) Any such trust agreement or indenture of mortgage may contain the resolution or ordinance authorizing the issuance...

...m the innovation Ohio loan fund will be secured by a mortgage, lien, assignment, or pledge, or other interest in property or innovation property at such level of priority and value as the director may determine necessary, provided that, in making such a determination, the director may take into account the value of any rights granted by the borrower to the director to control the use of any property or innovation pro...

...arch and development loan fund will be secured by a mortgage, assignment, pledge, lien provided for under section 9.661 of the Revised Code, or other interest in property or other assets of the borrower, at such level of priority and value as the director considers necessary, provided that, in making such a determination, the director shall take into account the value of any rights granted by the borrower to t...

...Subject to division (B) of section 169.01 of the Revised Code, the following constitute unclaimed funds: (A) Except as provided in division (R) of this section, any demand, savings, or matured time deposit account, or matured certificate of deposit, together with any interest or dividend on it, less any lawful claims, that is held or owed by a holder which is a financial organization, unclaimed for a period of fiv...

...(A) A corporation may sue and be sued. (B) A corporation may adopt and alter a corporate seal and use the same or a facsimile of the corporate seal, but failure to affix the corporate seal shall not affect the validity of any instrument. (C) At the request or direction of the United States government or any agency of the United States government, a corporation may transact any lawful business in aid of nation...

...(A) A corporation may sue and be sued. (B) A corporation may adopt and alter a corporate seal and use it or a facsimile of it, but failure to affix the corporate seal shall not affect the validity of any instrument. (C) Unless otherwise provided in the articles, a corporation may take property of any description, or any interest in property, by gift, devise, or bequest. (D) Subject to limitations prescribed b...