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...the Revised Code becomes operative, the municipal corporation may enlarge its board of hospital commissioners, established under sections 749.04 and 749.05 of the Revised Code, so as to admit to membership thereon such representatives of the participating joint township hospital district, or such representatives of the county, as provided for in such agreement, and the board shall thereupon proceed under and be gover...

..., in the maintenance and operation of a municipal hospital, the municipal corporation may establish a board of governors to exercise, subject to such further limitations as are imposed by the agreement, the powers vested in the board of hospital commissioners, provided that any such limitations shall not deny the board of governors the authority to retain counsel, to institute legal action in its own name, or to empl...

...tion and in connection therewith to use tax funds for the payment of dues and fees not to exceed, in the aggregate, the sum of five thousand dollars in any one year.

...In any municipal corporation which is the owner or trustee of property for hospital purposes, or of funds to be used in connection therewith, by deed of gift, devise, or bequest, such property or funds shall be managed and administered in accordance with the provisions of such deed of gift, devise, or bequest.

...When the deed of gift, devise, or bequest mentioned in section 749.20 of the Revised Code requires the investment, or the change of investment, of the principal of such property or funds, or any part thereof, to be made upon the approval of an advisory committee appointed by the court, such property or funds, and any hospital property for the care or management of which, in whole or in part, such fund is used, shall ...

...nsist of eight resident electors of the municipal corporation, who shall be appointed by the board of trustees of the sinking fund, or, in the event that the board of trustees of a sinking fund ceases to function within such municipal corporation by operation of law, they shall be appointed by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation. Each member of such board shall serve without compensation for the te...

...l under the control of such board. The municipal auditor or clerk shall act as the clerk of such board, and shall receive no additional salary or compensation for such services.

... shall, subject to any ordinance of the municipal corporation, have the entire management and control of the property or funds mentioned in section 749.20 of the Revised Code, and shall establish such rules for the government thereof as it deems expedient. Such board shall also have the entire control of the expenditure of all moneys therefrom and they shall be disbursed by the treasurer of the municipal corporation ...

...ved by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, shall have the same effect and may be enforced by the same penalties as ordinances thereof.

...The board of hospital trustees, before entering into any contract for the erection of a hospital building, or for the rebuilding or repair of a hospital building, the cost of which exceeds fifty thousand dollars, shall have plans, specifications, detailed drawings, and forms of bids prepared, and when adopted by the board it shall have them printed for distribution among the bidders.

...sited in the office of the clerk of the municipal corporation.

...newspaper of general circulation in the municipal corporation that sealed proposals will be received for doing the work or furnishing the materials and supplies.

...Each bid submitted under section 749.28 of the Revised Code for a contract for the construction, demolition, alteration, repair, or reconstruction of an improvement shall meet the requirements of section 153.54 of the Revised Code. Each bid submitted under section 749.28 of the Revised Code for any other contract shall be accompanied with a bond, signed by sufficient sureties, for the acceptance of the contract if aw...

...Each bid submitted under section 749.28 of the Revised Code shall be enclosed in a sealed envelope and deposited with the clerk of the board of hospital trustees, and such envelope shall have indorsed thereon the nature of the bid. All bids shall be opened at the time, date, and place specified in the notice to bidders or specifications. The time, date, and place of bid openings may be extended to a later date by the...

...Except where the contract is for equipment, services, materials, or supplies available from a qualified nonprofit agency pursuant to section 125.601 of the Revised Code, the board of hospital trustees shall enter into a contract for work or supplies where the estimated cost exceeds fifty thousand dollars with the lowest and best bidder. Where the contract is for other than the construction, demolition, alteration, re...

...The board of hospital trustees shall incur no liability for hospital purposes beyond the amount of the funds levied or received for such purposes.

...The board of hospital trustees may employ such employees as are necessary for the execution of its duties and fix their compensation. Any of such persons may be removed by the board at any time. The board may provide to its employees such of the benefits, awards, and staff development programs listed in section 749.082 of the Revised Code as the board determines to be customary and usual in the nonprofit hospital fie...

...ort to the legislative authority of the municipal corporation of its proceedings, with a detailed statement of its receipts and expenditures during the year. The board shall also, at the proper time, submit to the legislative authority a detailed estimate of the amount necessary to maintain and improve such hospital for the ensuing year.

...garding any general hospital owned by a municipal corporation, or any general hospital in which a joint township hospital district board or a board of county commissioners is participating with a municipal corporation under section 513.08 or 749.16 of the Revised Code, the council of such municipal corporation may, upon such terms as are agreed between the council and a constituted and empowered nonsectarian Ohio cor...

...Sections 140.03 and 140.05 of the Revised Code are alternatives to sections 749.01 to 749.18, inclusive, 749.21 to 749.31, inclusive, and 749.33 to 749.35, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Those sections of Chapter 749. of the Revised Code shall not be applicable with respect to hospital facilities and services provided for under leases and agreements entered into pursuant to section 140.03 or 140.05 of the Revised Co...

...Notwithstanding any conflicting provision of sections 749.09 to 749.14 and 749.26 to 749.31 of the Revised Code, Chapter 153. of the Revised Code, or any other competitive bidding requirement specified in the Revised Code that requires a public authority to enter into separate contracts for the design and construction of a public improvement. (A) A board of hospital commissioners or a board of hospital trustees may...

...The management of the affairs of city infirmaries and the care of the inmates thereof, the erection and enlargement of infirmary buildings and additions thereto, the repair and furnishing thereof, the improvement of the grounds there with connected, and the granting of outdoor relief to the poor, shall be vested in the director of public safety.

...The infirmary or the pesthouse of a city may be located either inside or outside of the city limits, and the legislative authority may purchase and hold the necessary real estate on which to build it.

...9.04 of the Revised Code in relation to municipal hospitals. The power of the legislative authority in relation thereto shall be the same, so far as applicable, as provided to the legislative authority by sections 749.01 to 749.34 of the Revised Code, in relation to hospitals.

...The director of public safety shall see that the inmates of a city infirmary are comfortably provided for and kindly treated, and he may provide for the care and support of the males and females in separate buildings, or in separate departments of the same building.

...(A) No employer shall give employment to a minor, without agreeing with him as to the wages or compensation he shall receive for each day, week, month, or year; or per piece, for work performed. The employer shall furnish the minor with written evidence of the agreement and, on or before each payday, with a statement of the earnings due and the amount to be paid to him. No employer shall reduce the wages or compensa...

...Every employer shall keep a time book or other written records which shall state the name, address, and occupation of each minor employed, the number of hours worked by such minor on each day of the week, the hours of beginning and ending work, the hours of beginning and ending meal periods, and the amount of wages paid each pay period to each minor. The director of commerce or the director's authorized representativ...

...(A) No person shall continue to employ any minor in violation of any law relating to the employment of minors after being notified of the violation in writing by the director of commerce or other enforcement official. Failure of the director or other enforcement official to give such notice does not excuse or negate a conviction for any offense except a violation of this division. (B) No employer shall employ, and ...

...e those complaints. (D) County courts, municipal courts, and juvenile courts have jurisdiction to try offenses under this chapter. Juvenile courts have exclusive original jurisdiction to try offenses under section 3321.38 of the Revised Code. (E) No person or enforcement official instituting proceedings under this section shall be required to file or give security for the costs. If a defendant is acquitted, the ju...

...(A) No employer shall employ any minor who is under sixteen years of age in any door-to-door sales activity unless that employer is registered pursuant to this section and otherwise is in compliance with the requirements of this chapter. (B) To obtain registration as a door-to-door employer, an employer shall apply to the director of commerce, on forms provided by the director. The application form shall include all...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Construction occupation" means employment that consists of the construction, reconstruction, enlargement, alteration, repair, remodeling, renovation, demolition, or painting of a building or other structure, road, bridge, or other work, including preparation of a site for new construction. (2) "Manufacturing occupation" means employment that consists of the mechanical, physical...

...(A) Whoever violates section 4109.04, division (C) of section 4109.07, division (A), (B), or (D) of section 4109.08, section 4109.11, or division (B) of section 4109.12 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. (B) Whoever violates section 4109.05 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. (C) Whoever violates section 4109.03, division (A), (B), or (D) of section 4109.07, or s...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Wage" means compensation due to an employee by reason of employment, payable in legal tender of the United States or checks on banks convertible into cash on demand at full face value, subject to the deductions, charges, or allowances permitted by rules of the director of commerce under section 4111.05 of the Revised Code. "Wage" includes an employee's commissions of which the employee'...

...Every employer, as defined in Section 34a of Article II, Ohio Constitution, shall pay each of the employer's employees at a wage rate of not less than the wage rate specified in Section 34a of Article II, Ohio Constitution. The director of commerce annually shall adjust the wage rate as specified in Section 34a of Article II, Ohio Constitution. No political subdivision shall establish a minimum wage rate differen...

...y thousand dollars, exclusive of excise taxes at the retail level which are separately stated; (b) A franchisor with respect to the franchisor's relationship with a franchisee or an employee of a franchisee, unless the franchisor agrees to assume that role in writing or a court of competent jurisdiction determines that the franchisor exercises a type or degree of control over the franchisee or the franchisee's emp...

...(A)(1) Except as provided in divisions (B) and (C) of this section, an employer is not required to pay the overtime wage rate under section 4111.03 of the Revised Code to an employee for any time that the employee spends performing any of the following activities: (a) Walking, riding, or traveling to and from the actual place of performance of the principal activity or activities that the employee is employed to p...

...The director of commerce may: (A) Investigate and ascertain the wages of persons employed in any occupation in the state; (B) Enter and inspect the place of business or employment of any employer for the purpose of inspecting any books, registers, payrolls, or other records of the employer that in any way relate to the question of wages, hours, and other conditions of employment of any employees, and may question t...

...The director of commerce shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as the director considers appropriate to carry out the purposes of sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code. The rules may be amended from time to time and may include, but are not limited to, rules defining and governing apprentices, their number, proportion, and length of service; bonuses and special pay for specia...

...In order to prevent curtailment of opportunities for employment, to avoid undue hardship, and to safeguard the minimum wage rates under sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code, the director of commerce shall adopt rules under section 4111.05 of the Revised Code, permitting employment in any occupation at wages lower than the wage rates applicable under sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code, of indiv...

...The director of commerce may adopt rules under section 4111.05 of the Revised Code, permitting employment of apprentices at a wage rate not less than eighty-five per cent of the minimum wage rate applicable under sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code. The rules shall provide for licenses to be issued for periods not to exceed ninety days and authorizing employment at the wages of specific individuals or gro...

...Every employer subject to section 4111.03 of the Revised Code, or to any rule adopted thereunder, shall make and keep for a period of not less than three years a record of the name, address, and occupation of each of the employer's employees, the rate of pay and the amount paid each pay period to each employee, the hours worked each day and each work week by the employee, and other information as the director o...

...(A) Every employer subject to sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code, or to any rules issued thereunder, shall keep a summary of the sections, approved by the director of commerce, and copies of any applicable rules issued thereunder, or a summary of the rules, posted in one of the following ways: (1) In a conspicuous and accessible place in or about the premises wherein any person subject thereto is emplo...

...(A) Any employer who pays any employee less than wages to which the employee is entitled under section 4111.03 of the Revised Code, is liable to the employee affected for the full amount of the overtime wage rate, less any amount actually paid to the employee by the employer, and for costs and reasonable attorney's fees as may be allowed by the court. Any agreement between the employee and the employer to work for le...

...Any standards relating to minimum wages, overtime compensation, or other working conditions in effect under any other law of this state on the effective date of sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code, which are more favorable to employees than those applicable to employees under sections or regulations issued hereunder, are not amended, rescinded, or otherwise affected by said sections, but continue in full ...

...Nothing in sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code interferes with, impedes, or in any way diminishes the right of employees to bargain collectively with their employers through representatives of their own choosing in order to establish wages or other conditions of work in excess of the applicable minimum under sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code.

...(A) No employer shall hinder or delay the director of commerce in the performance of the director's duties in the enforcement of sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code, or refuse to admit the director to any place of employment, or fail to make, keep, and preserve any records as required under those sections, or falsify any of those records, or refuse to make them accessible to the director upon demand, or r...

...(A) Pursuant to the general assembly's authority to establish a minimum wage under Section 34 of Article II, Ohio Constitution, this section is in implementation of Section 34a of Article II, Ohio Constitution. In implementing Section 34a of Article II, Ohio Constitution, the general assembly hereby finds that the purpose of Section 34a of Article II, Ohio Constitution, is to: (1) Ensure that Ohio employees, as defi...

...(A) No employer, including the state and political subdivisions thereof, shall discriminate in the payment of wages on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, or ancestry by paying wages to any employee at a rate less than the rate at which the employer pays wages to another employee for equal work on jobs the performance of which requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are ...

...(A) Whoever violates division (A) or (D) of section 4111.13 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (B) Whoever violates division (B) or (C) of section 4111.13 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. (C) Whoever violates section 4111.17 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.

...ed to, cemeteries owned and operated by municipal corporations, townships, or companies or associations incorporated for cemetery purposes. (13) "Disability" means a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, including the functions of caring for one's self, performing manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning, and working; a record of a ph...

... any case prosecuted for violation of a municipal ordinance the village solicitor or city director of law, and for a statute, he or the prosecuting attorney, shall present the case for the municipal corporation and the state respectively, but either may delegate the responsibility to some other attorney in a proper case, or, if the defendant be unrepresented by counsel may with leave of court, withdraw from the case....

... by the jury commissioners of county or municipality as the case may be.

...The rules of evidence and procedure, including those governing notices, proof of special matters, depositions, and joinder of defendants and offenses set forth in Chapter 2945. of the Revised Code, which are not, by their nature, inapplicable to the trial of misdemeanors, shall prevail in trials under Chapter 2938. of the Revised Code where no special provision is made in such chapter, or where no provision is made b...

...Any domestic stock life insurance corporation, incorporated under a general law, may become a mutual life insurance corporation, and to that end may carry out a plan for the acquisition of shares of its capital stock, provided such plan: (A) Has been adopted by a vote of a majority of the directors of such corporation; (B) Has been approved by a vote of stockholders representing a majority of the capital sto...

...If a domestic stock life insurance corporation determines to become a mutual life insurance corporation, it may, in carrying out any plan to that end under section 3913.01 of the Revised Code, acquire any shares of its own stock by gift, bequest, or purchase. Until all of such shares are acquired, any shares so acquired, or acquired pursuant to section 3913.03 of the Revised Code, shall be acquired in trust for the c...

...If a stockholder of any domestic stock life insurance corporation planning to become a mutual life insurance corporation under section 3913.01 of the Revised Code files with the corporation, prior to or at the meeting of the stockholders at which the plan is submitted to a vote, a written objection to such plan and does not vote in favor of it, and such stockholder, within twenty days after the plan is approved by su...

...The trustees provided for in section 3913.02 of the Revised Code shall be appointed and vacancies shall be filled by the superintendent of insurance. Such trustees shall be qualified directors of the corporation at the time of such appointment and shall continue as such trustees until the purpose of the trust is accomplished or abandoned, unless they are removed for cause by the superintendent. Said trustees shall fi...

...When a domestic stock life insurance corporation has become converted into a mutual life insurance corporation, the officers and directors or trustees of the original corporation shall remain as the officers and directors or trustees of the newly converted corporation until the next annual meeting for the election of officers and directors or trustees, when their successors shall be elected in the manner provided in ...

...The corporate powers of a mutual life insurance corporation shall be exercised by, and its business and affairs shall be controlled by, a board of directors or trustees composed of not less than three nor more than twenty-one natural persons who are policyholders or members of said corporation. The members of such board shall be at least eighteen years of age, and at least three members must be residents and citizens...

...In order to secure continuity of membership in its board of directors or trustees, the articles of incorporation of any mutual life insurance corporation may provide for division of the board into not more than three classes, as nearly equal in number as possible, and may fix the term of office for each class. Unless such provision is made in the articles of incorporation, all directors and trustees shall be elected...

...Meetings of the board of directors or trustees of any mutual life insurance corporation shall be upon such notice as the code of regulations prescribes. Attendance of a director or trustee at any meeting constitutes a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when a director or trustee attends the meeting for the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called...

...If the code of regulations of any mutual life insurance corporation so provides, the board of directors or trustees, by a resolution adopted by a majority of the whole board, may designate three or more of its number to constitute an executive committee, which committee shall, to the extent provided in the resolution or in the code of regulations, have and exercise, during the interim between the meetings of the boar...

...The code of regulations of any mutual life insurance corporation shall provide that each policyholder of the corporation shall be a member of the corporation. As used in this section, "policyholder" means the person insured under an individual policy of life insurance, and the person to whom any annuity or pure endowment is presently or prospectively payable by the terms of an individual annuity or pure endowment co...

...(A) A domestic mutual life insurance company may become a stock life insurance company, pursuant to sections 3913.11 to 3913.13 of the Revised Code, provided that the company have unassigned surplus at least equal to the capital and surplus required under section 3907.05 of the Revised Code for a life insurance company to commence business in this state, that such conversion will benefit the company, that adequate pr...

...(A) In effecting a conversion of a mutual life insurance company into a stock life insurance company, each policyholder is entitled to consideration in an amount equal to his equitable share of the value of the mutual company as provided for in the plan of conversion. Such consideration may be in the form of stock, either common or preferred, warrants, bonds, debentures, cash, or increased benefits. If the plan prov...

...Any policyholder adversely affected by an order of the superintendent of insurance pursuant to division (F) of section 3913.11 of the Revised Code, may appeal to the court of common pleas pursuant to section 119.12 of the Revised Code.

...As used in sections 3913.20 to 3913.23, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Policy" means a contract of insurance, other that life insurance issued on the mutual plan, and includes the master contract for group insurance, and also includes any policy or policies from or in continuation of which a policy in effect on the date of the examination conducted pursuant to division (C) of section 3913.21 of the Revised Cod...

...(A) A domestic mutual insurance company other than life may become a stock insurance corporation other than life, pursuant to sections 3913.20 to 3913.23 of the Revised Code, provided that such conversion will benefit the company, that adequate provision for protection of the policyholders' interests is made, and that such conversion is not inequitable, unreasonable, or contrary to law. (B) The board of directors of...

...(A) In effecting a conversion of a mutual insurance company into a stock insurance corporation pursuant to sections 3913.20 to 3913.23, inclusive, of the Revised Code, each mutual policyholder is entitled to such shares of stock of the new corporation as his equitable share of the value of the mutual company will purchase. If such equitable share of the value of the mutual company entitles a policyholder to a fractio...

...Any policyholder adversely affected by an order of the superintendent of insurance pursuant to division (F) of section 3913.21 of the Revised Code, may appeal to the court of common pleas pursuant to section 119.12 of the Revised Code.

...As used in sections 3913.25 to 3913.38 of the Revised Code: (A) "Intermediate holding company" means a stock corporation that owns all of the shares of voting stock of one or more reorganized stock companies after a reorganization under sections 3913.25 to 3913.38 of the Revised Code. "Intermediate holding company" also means a stock corporation that is the parent or subsidiary of another intermediate holding compan...

...(A) A mutual insurance company, by itself or together with one or more other mutual insurance companies acting pursuant to a joint reorganization plan, may reorganize in accordance with the requirements of sections 3913.25 to 3913.38 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) A mutual insurance company may adopt a reorganization plan that is consistent with the requirements of sections 3913.25 to 3913.38 of the Revised Code. Such ...

...(A) A reorganization plan adopted by a mutual insurance company's board of directors pursuant to section 3913.26 of the Revised Code shall be voted upon by a mutual insurance company's policyholders at a policyholders' meeting. A policyholder is entitled to cast only one vote, in person or by proxy, on the reorganization plan regardless of the number of policies or contracts that the policyholder may own or hold. On...

...(A) A mutual insurance company shall not proceed with a reorganization plan approved by the mutual insurance company's policyholders under section 3913.27 of the Revised Code until the reorganization plan has been reviewed by, and has received the approval of, the superintendent of insurance, and the articles of incorporation for the mutual insurance holding company and the reorganized stock company, and, if applicab...

...(A) Proposed amendments to the articles of incorporation of a mutual insurance holding company may be adopted at any members' meeting. The board of directors of a mutual insurance holding company shall provide notice of any members' meeting conducting a vote on the adoption of an amendment to the articles of incorporation in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county where the company's principal plac...