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... shops, salesrooms, markets, or similar commercial uses, or for offices, banks, civic administration activities, professional services, or similar business or civic uses, and in which the other floors are used, or designed and intended to be used, for residential purposes. "Building" does not include any building or structure that is occupied by its owner and that contains three or fewer residential units. (2)(a) ...

...fair, a county fair, or other fair at a commercial track may receive and conduct simulcast racing programs as a simulcast host or simulcast guest at the same time in conjunction with the live racing program of the state fair, county fair, or other fair permit holder conducted at its track. The simulcast hosts, with the approval of the state racing commission, shall determine which simulcast racing programs offered b...

...tification to be a photocopy of a valid commercial driver's license issued under Chapter 4506. or a driver's license issued under Chapter 4507. of the Revised Code.

...operated energizer that is powered by a commercial storage battery that is not more than twelve volts of direct current; (e) Is four to twelve inches behind a non-battery-charged perimeter fence, wall, or structure that is not less than five feet in height; (f) Is ten feet in height, or two feet higher than the height of the non-battery-charged perimeter fence, wall, or structure, whichever is higher; (g) Is ma...

... (B) Protection services, utilities, commercial excavators, excavation equipment dealers, the public utilities commission of Ohio, the board of building standards, local law enforcement agencies, and fire departments should publicize the importance of ascertaining the location of underground utility facilities before excavating and the use of protection services to ascertain that information. (C) A protecti...

...king charitable donations on behalf of, commercial or institutional consumers in connection with the marketing, sale, purchase, or retention of contracts of insurance, as long as the cost is reasonable in comparison to the premium or proposed premium and the cost of the gift or services is not included in any amounts charged to another person or entity. (2) The offer shall be made in a manner that is not unfairly d...

...inducement to insurance do not apply to commercial property and casualty insurance, but do apply to producer commission reductions not included in insurance company rate filings.

...ng securities, by contract other than a commercial contract for goods or nonmanagement services, or otherwise, unless the power is the result of an official position with or corporate office held by the person. Control shall be presumed to exist if any person, directly or indirectly, owns, controls, holds with the power to vote, or holds proxies representing, ten per cent or more of the voting securities of any other...

... (d) Homeowners multiple peril; (e) Commercial multiple peril; (f) Inland marine; (g) Earthquake; (h) Auto physical damage. (4) The superintendent may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to establish the process for a certified reinsurer to seek a deferral of posting of security for catastrophe recoverables.

...ng securities, by contract other than a commercial contract for goods or nonmanagement services, or otherwise, unless the power is the result of an official position with or corporate office held by the person. (H) "Declination of insurance coverage" means a denial, in whole or in part, by an insurance institution or agent of requested insurance coverage. (I) "Individual" means any natural person who in connectio...

...tiates a contract of insurance covering commercial property and casualty risks located in more than one state, if the person is licensed as an insurance agent to sell, solicit, or negotiate that insurance contract in the state where the insured maintains its principal place of business and the contract insures risks located in that state; (8) Any salaried full-time employee who counsels or advises the employee's emp...

...er an individual policy, or as a group, commercial, or master policy issued to a self-service storage facility to provide insurance for the self-service storage facility's customers. (b) "Self-service storage insurance" does not mean any of the following: (i) A consumer goods service contract governed by section 3905.423 of the Revised Code; (ii) A policy of insurance covering a seller's or a manufacturer's obliga...

....61 of the Revised Code, or by the Ohio commercial insurance joint underwriting association pursuant to sections 3930.03 to 3930.18 of the Revised Code shall in any calendar year be required to contribute to, participate in, or be assessed by any one or more of those plans or associations in an amount or amounts totaling in excess of two and one-half per cent of its net direct Ohio premium volume for the year next pr...

...l insurers that are members of the Ohio commercial insurance joint underwriting association shall participate in its writings, expenses, deficits, and losses in the proportion that the net direct premiums of each bears to the aggregate net direct premiums written in this state by all members of the association, excluding premiums attributable to the operation of the association in the preceding calendar year.

... sustained in the operation of the Ohio commercial insurance joint underwriting association. (B) Each association policyholder shall pay to the association a stabilization reserve fund charge equal to twenty per cent of the total annual premium payment due for insurance through the association without regard to whether assessment as authorized in section 3930.07 of the Revised Code has been imposed. Such charge shal...

...d by any action or decision of the Ohio commercial insurance joint underwriting association, or of any insurer as a result of its participation therein, may appeal to the board of governors. The decision of the board of governors may be appealed to the superintendent of insurance within thirty days from the date of the action or the decision. The superintendent shall, after hearing held upon proper notice, issue an o...

...n of any nature arises against the Ohio commercial insurance joint underwriting association, its members, board of governors, agents, or employees, an insurer or its employees, any licensed agent or broker, or the superintendent of insurance or the superintendent's authorized representatives, their members or employees, for any action taken by them in the performance of their powers and duties under sections 3930.03 ...

...The Ohio commercial insurance joint underwriting association shall file in the office of the superintendent of insurance, annually on or before the first day of March, a statement that shall contain information with respect to its transactions, conditions, operations, and affairs during the preceding calendar year. Such statement shall contain such matters and information as are prescribed and shall be in such form a...

...The Ohio commercial insurance joint underwriting association shall be subject to examination by the superintendent of insurance in accordance with section 3901.07 of the Revised Code. Section 3901.07 of the Revised Code shall govern every aspect of the examination, including the circumstances under and frequency with which it is conducted, the authority of the superintendent and any examiner or other person appointed...

...The Ohio commercial insurance joint underwriting association is exempt from all license fees, and income, franchise, premium, and privilege taxes levied or assessed by this state or any political subdivision.

...The board of governors of the Ohio commercial insurance joint underwriting association shall adopt a written program for decreasing the overall utilization of the association as a source of insurance. The program shall set forth actions that the board shall take to decrease such utilization, including actions intended to reduce the classes of insurance offered by the association, to reduce the number of policies issu...

...The Ohio commercial insurance joint underwriting association shall not be a member insurer of the Ohio insurance guaranty association under Chapter 3955. of the Revised Code.

...ized and arising out of any business or commercial enterprise. Such contracts and the exchange thereof and such subscribers, their attorneys, and representatives shall be regulated by such sections, and no law enacted after July 4, 1917, shall apply to them, unless they are expressly designated therein. Such a contract may be executed by an attorney or other representative designated "attorney," in sections 3931.01 ...

...y be used on any specific risk. (H) A commercial insurance policy form or endorsement that is unique in character and designed for a particular risk is exempt from filing, except that the superintendent may, by regulation or order, prescribe specific restrictions relating to the exemption. (I) An insurer shall retain any insurance policy form, endorsement, or rate that is exempt from filing under division (F), (G...

...r's, tenant's, mobile-homeowner's, non-commercial dwelling fire or personal umbrella coverage. (2) "Customer" has the same meaning as in section 3901.19 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) An insurer may, but is not required to, provide or make a policy summary of material coverages and exclusions in a personal lines policy of insurance available to a customer. If an insurer chooses to provide or make any such policy ...

...The funeral director employed to perform the service described by section 5901.25 of the Revised Code shall use the blanks provided by this section, specifying what the funeral director is to furnish for the service. The contract shall be signed by the funeral director and a copy thereof left with the veterans service commission with which it is made. Such contract shall read as follows: "I ________________, funera...

...The funeral director shall present the itemized bill and contract, as approved by the veterans service commission, to the county auditor, upon printed blanks furnished by the auditor, and make an oath that the funeral director has honestly and faithfully performed the contract, that the bill and contract attached is a true copy of the one left with the parties who engaged the funeral director's services, and that the...

...If a saving of money is effected by reason of the loan of automobiles, ownership of a cemetery lot, or other items mentioned in the bill of expenses under section 5901.30 of the Revised Code, the amount of such saving shall remain in the general fund of the county. If it appears that life insurance or any additional funds are coming to the family of the deceased, the veterans service commission shall withhold its sig...

...Upon securing the report and statement of expenses as provided by section 5901.27 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall transcribe in a book to be kept for that purpose, all the facts contained in the report concerning a deceased veteran, and shall certify the expenses thus incurred to the county auditor, who shall draw a warrant for those expenses upon the county treasurer, to be paid from the...

...The board of county commissioners shall, upon the petition of any five veterans of any township or municipal corporation in its county, procure for and furnish to the petitioners a suitable and durable marker for the grave of each veteran buried in the limits of the township or municipal corporation. The name of the veteran and the company, regiment, or other command in which he served may be inscribed upon the marke...

...The board of county commissioners shall provide for the proper care of the graves of all veterans, and of confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines who are buried in lots used exclusively for the benefit of veterans and confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in cemeteries or burying grounds.

...For the purpose of enabling counties or municipal corporations to aid and facilitate the construction of veterans' facilities operated by the United States department of veterans affairs as a public works project of the government of the United States, the board of county commissioners of any county or the legislative authority of any municipal corporation may acquire lands by purchase or deed of gift for the purpose...

...In any county having a cemetery or part of it set apart for the burial of veterans, or containing a monument erected to their memory, or containing monuments and memorials erected by private or public expense to the memory of veterans, the board of county commissioners shall care for and properly preserve that portion of the cemetery so set apart for the burial of such veterans, and shall care for and properly preser...

...(A) No person who is not a veteran, an active-duty member of the armed forces of the United States, or the spouse, surviving spouse, dependent parent, minor child, or ward of a veteran or an active-duty member of the armed forces of the United States shall knowingly represent that the person is a veteran, an active-duty member of the armed forces of the United States, or the spouse, surviving spouse, dependent parent...

...The person appointed to the position of director of veterans services shall be an honorably discharged or honorably separated veteran of the United States armed forces. The department of veterans services shall employ administrative and technical personnel as are necessary to perform the general and specific duties of the department. For positions within the department, the director shall adopt rules under Chapter 11...

...The duties of the director of veterans services shall include the following: (A) Furnishing the veterans service commissions of all counties of the state copies of the state laws, rules, and legislation relating to the operation of the commissions and their offices; (B) Upon application, assisting the general public in obtaining records of vital statistics pertaining to veterans or their dependents; (C) Adoptin...

...The director of veterans services may microfilm or otherwise duplicate all or any part of copies of original certificates of discharge and separation submitted by Ohio veterans. The director may prepare and maintain files of such microfilmed certificates of discharge and separation in such manner that they may readily be available for the use of the department of veterans services, authorize...

...(A) Upon application, the director of veterans services shall furnish necessary instructions and advice to the veterans of the state, their heirs, or their legal representatives, respecting their claims against the United States or the state for pensions, bounty, bonus, back pay, or otherwise, by reason of military service. (B) The director or the director's representative may examine...

...(A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the military injury relief fund, which shall consist of money contributed to it under sections 4503.535 and 5747.113 of the Revised Code and of contributions made directly to it. Any person or entity may contribute directly to the fund in addition to or independently of the income tax refund contribution system established in section 5747.113 of the Revised Code. (B)...

...The director of veterans services may administer oaths. The director's official certificate shall be received in evidence without further authentication.

...The director of veterans services, or any employee thereof, shall not receive directly or indirectly a fee or reward of any kind from a claimant or other person for services rendered or to be rendered, relating to a duty required of the director or employee under sections 5902.01 to 5902.07 of the Revised Code, or in any manner connected therewith.

...The director of veterans services shall develop, institute, and monitor a program under which the department of veterans services assists individuals, who are medical assistance recipients, to obtain federal military-related health care benefits. As used in this section, "federal military-related health care benefits" has the meaning defined in section 5160.471 of the Revised Code.

...(A) As used in this section, "armed forces" and "veteran" have the same meanings as in section 5903.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The sports gaming profits veterans fund is hereby created in the state treasury. Interest earned on the moneys in the fund shall be credited to the fund. The director of veterans services shall use all moneys credited to the fund for the following purposes: (1) For the direct benefit of ...

...Whoever violates section 5902.08 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Active duty" means full-time duty in the active military service of the United States or active duty pursuant to an executive order of the president of the United States, an act of the congress of the United States, or a proclamation of the governor. "Active duty" does not include active duty for training, initial active duty for training, or the period of time for which a perso...

...(A) Once per calendar year, an employer shall allow an employee to take leave up to ten days or eighty hours, whichever is less, if all of the following conditions are satisfied: (1) The employer has employed the employee for at least twelve consecutive months and for at least one thousand two hundred fifty hours in the twelve months immediately preceding commencement of the leave. (2) The employee is the p...

...(A) An employer shall not interfere with, restrain, or deny the exercise or attempted exercise of a right established under this chapter. (B) An employer shall not discharge, fine, suspend, expel, discipline, or discriminate against an employee with respect to any term or condition of employment because of the employee's actual or potential exercise, or support for another employee's exercise, of any right e...

...Whoever violates this chapter is subject to a civil action for injunctive relief or any other relief that a court finds necessary to secure a right provided by this chapter.

...In each city there shall be a department of public service which shall be administered by a director of public service. The director shall be appointed by the mayor and need not be a resident of the city at the time of his appointment but shall become a resident thereof within six months after his appointment unless such residence requirement is waived by ordinance. He shall make rules and regulations for the admin...

...Whenever the legislative authority of any city, by ordinance, declares it essential to the best interests of such city, the duties relating to the management and operation of municipally owned public utilities conferred upon the director of public service by sections 735.02 and 743.03 of the Revised Code shall be vested in a board composed of three members. The mayor, with the consent of the legislative authority, sh...