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...As used in sections 2151.82 to 2151.84 of the Revised Code: (A) "Independent living services" means services and other forms of support designed to aid children and young adults to successfully make the transition to independent adult living and to achieve emotional and economic self-sufficiency. "Independent living services" may include the following: (1) Providing housing; (2) Teaching decision-making skills; (...

...A public children services agency or private child placing agency, that has temporary or permanent custody of, or is providing care in a planned permanent living arrangement to, a child who is fourteen years of age or older, shall provide independent living services to the child. The services to be provided shall be determined based on an evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the child, completed or obtained ...

...(A) When a juvenile court commits a delinquent child to the custody of the department of youth services pursuant to this chapter, the court shall not designate the specific institution in which the department is to place the child but instead shall specify that the child is to be institutionalized in a secure facility. (B) When a juvenile court commits a delinquent child to the custody of the department of yo...

...(A) If a child is adjudicated a delinquent child, the court may make any of the following orders of disposition, in addition to any other disposition authorized or required by this chapter: (1) Any order that is authorized by section 2151.353 of the Revised Code for the care and protection of an abused, neglected, or dependent child; (2) Commit the child to the temporary custody of any school, camp, institution, or...

...(A) If a child is adjudicated a delinquent child or a juvenile traffic offender, the court may order any of the following dispositions, in addition to any other disposition authorized or required by this chapter: (1) Impose a fine in accordance with the following schedule: (a) For an act that would be a minor misdemeanor or an unclassified misdemeanor if committed by an adult, a fine not to exceed fifty dollars; ...

...(A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, an action for assault or battery shall be brought within two years after the cause of action accrues, except as provided in division (B) of this section, if all of the following apply regarding the action, the cause of the action, and the parties to the action: (1) The action is brought against a mental health professional. (2) The assault or battery claim ass...

...As used in sections 2305.236 to 2305.239 of the Revised Code: (A) "Conduct" means actions or omissions. (B) "Domestic violence," "shelter," and "shelter for victims of domestic violence" have the same meanings as in section 3113.33 of the Revised Code. (C) "Perpetrator" means a person who allegedly has committed domestic violence and who bears one of the relationships specified in division (B) of section 3113.33 o...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Cable service" and "cable system" have the same meanings as in section 2913.04 of the Revised Code. (2) "Trier of fact" means the jury or, in a nonjury trial, the court. (3) "Profits" derived from a violation of division (B) of section 2913.04 or division (A) or (B) of section 2913.041 of the Revised Code are equal to whichever of the following applies: (a) The gross revenue deri...

..."Insider" means: (a) If the person who claims an exemption is an individual, a relative of the individual, a relative of a general partner of the individual, a partnership in which the individual is a general partner, a general partner of the individual, or a corporation of which the individual is a director, officer, or in control; (b) If the person who claims an exemption is a corporation, a director or officer o...

...(A) Each court of appeals may appoint one or more official reporters, law clerks, secretaries, and any other employees that the court considers necessary for its efficient operation. The clerk of the court of common pleas, acting as the clerk of the court of appeals for the county, shall perform the duties otherwise performed and collect the fees otherwise collected by the clerk of the court of common pleas, ...

...The garnishee shall be served, in the same manner as a summons is served, with three copies of the order of garnishment of personal earnings and of a written notice that the garnishee answer as provided in division (E) of section 2716.041 of the Revised Code, this section, and section 2716.21 of the Revised Code and with the garnishee's fee required by section 2716.04 of the Revised Code. The garnishee also shall be ...

...(A) The trial of a criminal case in this state shall be held in a court having jurisdiction of the subject matter, and, except in cases of emergency under section 1901.028, 1907.04, 2301.04, or 2501.20 of the Revised Code, in the territory of which the offense or any element of the offense was committed. (B) When the offense or any element of the offense was committed in an aircraft, motor vehicle, train, watercraft...

...(A) No person, without privilege to do so, shall recklessly obstruct any highway, street, sidewalk, or any other public passage in such a manner as to render the highway, street, sidewalk, or passage impassable without unreasonable inconvenience or hazard if both of the following apply: (1) The obstruction prevents an emergency vehicle from accessing a highway or street, prevents an emergency service responder fro...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Emergency response" means an action taken by a law enforcement agency to preserve the life, health, safety, or property of any person. (2) "Public safety answering point" and "emergency service provider" have the same meanings as in section 128.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "Telecommunications device" and "telecommunications service" have the same meanings as in section 2913.01 o...

...(A) Except as provided in division (E), (F), or (G) of this section and unless a specific sanction is required to be imposed or is precluded from being imposed pursuant to law, a court that imposes a sentence upon an offender for a felony may impose any sanction or combination of sanctions on the offender that are provided in sections 2929.14 to 2929.18 of the Revised Code. If the offender is eligible to be senten...

...(A) Any interception warrant or extension of an interception warrant that is issued pursuant to sections 2933.53 to 2933.55 of the Revised Code shall contain all of the following: (1) The name and court of the judge who issued the warrant and the jurisdiction of that court; (2) If known, the identity of each person whose communications are to be intercepted or, if the identity is unascertainable, a detailed descrip...

...(A)(1)(a) Immediately after a sentencing hearing is held on or after January 1, 2008, for an offender who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a sexually oriented offense and is sentenced to a prison term, a term of imprisonment, or any other type of confinement and before the offender is transferred to the custody of the department of rehabilitation and correction or to the official in charge of the jail, workhouse, ...

...(A)(1)(a) Immediately after a sentencing hearing is held on or after January 1, 2008, for an offender who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a child-victim oriented offense and is sentenced to a prison term, a term of imprisonment, or any other type of confinement and before the offender is transferred to the custody of the department of rehabilitation and correction or to the official in charge of the jail, workhou...

...(A) Notwithstanding divisions (A) and (D) of section 2929.14, section 2929.02, 2929.03, 2929.06, 2929.13, or another section of the Revised Code, other than divisions (B) and (C) of section 2929.14 of the Revised Code, that authorizes or requires a specified prison term or a mandatory prison term for a person who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a felony or that specifies the manner and place of service of a priso...

...The electors of any county may establish, by charter provision, a county civil service commission, personnel office, or personnel department. In any county which, by its charter, creates such a commission, office, or department, and provides a system for appointment to the county service on the basis of merit and fitness, as ascertained by competitive examination, Chapter 124. of the Revised Code is not operative; bu...

...(A) The board of trustees of a joint emergency medical services district shall employ an executive director, who shall be in the unclassified service, and fix his compensation. In addition to that compensation, the director shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of his official duties. The board may enter into an employment contract with the executive director for a ...

...(A)(1) Subject to division (C) of this section, the board of county commissioners may enter into an agreement with the legislative authority of any municipal corporation, township, port authority, water or sewer district, school district, library district, health district, park district, soil and water conservation district, water conservancy district, or other taxing district, or with the board of any other county, ...

...(A) As used in this section, "county office" means any officer, department, board, commission, or agency of a county. (B) There is hereby created in each county a county law library resources board. The board shall consist of five members who shall be appointed and hold office as provided in section 307.511 of the Revised Code. Beginning on January 1, 2010, subject to app...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Bonds" means: (a) Revenue bonds of the port authority described in division (B)(2)(a) of this section; (b) Securities as defined in division (KK) of section 133.01 of the Revised Code issued by the host municipal corporation, described in division (B)(3)(a) of this section; (c) Any bonds issued to refund any of those revenue bonds or securities. (2) "Corporation" means a no...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Bureau" means a nonprofit corporation that is organized under the laws of this state that is, or has among its functions acting as, a convention and visitors' bureau, and that currently receives revenue from existing lodging taxes. (2) "Cooperating parties" means the parties to a cooperative agreement. (3) "Cooperative agreement" means an agreement entered into pursuant to or a...

...On receipt of a notice pursuant to section 3123.43 of the Revised Code, the director of agriculture shall comply with sections 3123.41 to 3123.50 of the Revised Code and any applicable rules adopted under section 3123.63 of the Revised Code with respect to a license, certificate, or permit issued pursuant to this chapter.

...(A) Each collector or dealer who sells, offers, or exposes for sale, or distributes nursery stock within this state, or ships nursery stock to other states, shall pay an annual license fee of one hundred twenty-five dollars to the director of agriculture for each place of business the collector or dealer operates. (B)(1) Each dealer shall furnish the director, annually, an affidavit that the dealer will buy a...

...The plant pest program fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of money credited to it under section 909.15 of the Revised Code and under this chapter and any rules adopted under it. The director of agriculture shall use money in the fund to administer this chapter and Chapter 909. of the Revised Code. The director shall keep accurate records of all receipts into and disbursements...

...The fees required by section 927.53 of the Revised Code do not apply to: (A) A person who produces for sale either within this state or within any state in which such plants and parts do not require a certificate of inspection as a condition of entry, only nonhardy plants and plant parts, vegetable plants, herbs, or forced floral plants, of whatever nature, while in bloom; (B) A person who conducts the sale of nurs...

...(A) Each nurseryman, dealer, or collector of nursery stock, who resides in or has his principal place of business in another state and who sends nursery stock into this state without having a bona fide order in advance for all such nursery stock, shall obtain the same license that is required by section 927.53 of the Revised Code. (B) The director of agriculture may enter into such reciprocal contracts and ag...

...The director of agriculture may require any person who receives, directly or indirectly, nursery stock from a foreign country to notify the department of agriculture of the arrival of such shipment, the contents thereof, and the name and address of the consignor. If instructed to do so by the director, such person shall hold any such shipment unopened until inspected or released by the director. Any infested stock wh...

...The director of agriculture or his authorized representative, shall, at least once each year, inspect each nursery and other place in this state in which nursery stock is stored or held for sale. The director or his authorized representative shall have free access, within reasonable hours, to any field, orchard, garden, greenhouse, packing ground, building, cellar, freight, or express office, or warehouse, car, vesse...

...Each nurseryman or collector who sells or delivers nursery stock in this state shall apply in writing before the fifteenth day of April of each year to the director of agriculture for inspection of his nursery stock growing in this state. Such nurseryman or collector is liable for any additional expense incurred in the inspection of the nursery stock which may be due to his failure to give such notice prior to said d...

...(A) The director of agriculture shall issue to each nurseryman, after the stock in his nursery has been officially inspected and found to be apparently free from injurious or harmful pests and after payment of the fees required by section 927.53 of the Revised Code, a certificate setting forth the fact of such inspection. The certificate is valid not to exceed one year from the first day of January following the fili...

...(A) No person shall make a false declaration of acreage or conceal any nursery stock from inspection. (B) Each person who sells nursery stock shall, if requested, furnish the director of agriculture with copies of the order forms, contracts, and agreements with his customers which are furnished for the use of agents or customers, or both.

...(A) If the director of agriculture or his authorized representative determines that a pest in or on any premises used for growing, storage, or sale of nursery stock is destructive or harmful, he shall: (1) Notify the nurseryman, dealer, collector or person having charge of the premises, in writing, of the presence of such pest; (2) Restrict the movement of such infested stock, or withold such person's license or c...

...(A) Each person who wholesales, sells for resale, or distributes for resale nursery stock in this state shall attach on the outside of each package, box, bale, or vehicle load, or lot sold or delivered, a tag or poster on which shall appear on exact copy of his valid license or certificate of inspection. (B) No person shall use certificate tags or posters which have been altered or are invalid. (C) No person shall ...

...(A) Nursery stock which is shipped into this state from another state or country, shall have attached thereto a tag or poster bearing a facsimile copy of a valid state or federal certificate of inspection. (B) No person shall accept any nursery stock for transportation which does not have a facsimile of a valid certificate or license plainly affixed on the outside of the package, box, bale, vehicle, or car containin...

...(A) No person shall sell or offer for sale or distribute any nursery stock which: (1) Is not securely labeled in accordance with the "International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants" with the complete correct botanical or approved common name as recognized by the latest edition of: (a) "Wyman's gardening encyclopedia"; (b) Bailey's "Hortus III"; or (c) Other authoritative works and checklists. (2) Is la...

...(A) The director of agriculture or his authorized representative may seize, or order removed from sale, any nursery stock which has been removed from the field where grown, has not been permanently replanted, and: (1) Does not comply with the requirements of section 927.67 of the Revised Code with respect to soundness, vigor, or freedom from pests; (2) Is not correctly labeled in accordance with section 927.67 of t...

...No person and no political subdivision, agency, department, or instrumentality of the state shall, without a permit issued by the director of agriculture, sell, offer for sale, or plant any variety of multiflora rose plants or seed in this state, except that a licensed nurseryman may plant the multiflora rose for use as a root stock in growing roses other than the multiflora rose in his nursery. The director may issu...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, no person and no political subdivision, agency, department, or instrumentality of the state shall sell, offer for sale, or plant Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife) plants or seed in this state without a permit issued by the director of agriculture. The director may issue permits to plant Lythrum salicaria for use in controlled experiments. (B) The...

...To effect the purpose of sections 927.51 to 927.73 of the Revised Code, the director of agriculture or the director's authorized representative may: (A) Make reasonable inspection of any premises in this state and any property therein or thereon; (B) Stop and inspect in a reasonable manner, any means of conveyance moving within this state upon probable cause to believe it contains or carries any pest, host, c...

...(A) No person shall knowingly permit any plant pest that has been determined to be destructive or dangerously harmful by the director of agriculture, in compliance with procedures required by division (A) of section 927.52 of the Revised Code, to exist in or on the person's premises. (B) Whenever the director or the director's authorized representative finds any article or commodity to be infested or has reas...

...(A) As used in this section, "gypsy moth" means the live insect, Lymantria dispar, in any stage of development. (B) The director of agriculture may establish a voluntary gypsy moth suppression program under which a landowner may request that the department of agriculture have the landowner's property aerially sprayed to suppress the presence of gypsy moths in exchange for payment from the landowner of a porti...

...(A) The director of agriculture, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, may quarantine: (1) This state or any portion thereof when the director determines that such action is necessary to prevent or retard the spread of a pest into, within, or from this state; (2) Any other state or portion thereof when the director determines that a pest exists therein and that such action is necessary to preve...

...(A) No person shall violate sections 927.51 to 927.71, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or any rule or regulation of the director of agriculture promulgated under such sections. (B) The act, omission, or failure of any officer, agent, servant, or other individual acting for or employed by any person within the scope of his employment or office, shall be the act, omission, or failure of such person, as well as that of...

...(A) The director of agriculture or his authorized representative may prosecute any violation of sections 927.51 to 927.72, inclusive, of the Revised Code, in any court of competent jurisdiction. (B) Upon request of the director, the prosecuting attorney of the county, or the prosecuting officer of any other political subdivision, in which any such prosecution is pending, shall aid in any investigation, prosecution, ...

...Whoever violates sections 927.51 to 927.72 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree on a first offense; on each subsequent offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree.

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Cannabidiol" means the cannabidiol compound, containing a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than three-tenths per cent, derived from hemp. (B) "Cultivate" or "cultivating" means to plant, water, grow, fertilize, till, or harvest a plant or crop. "Cultivating" includes possessing or storing a plant or crop on a premises where the plant or crop was cultivated unt...

...If the fiduciary who brings an action under section 2127.01 to 2127.43 of the Revised Code dies, resigns, or is removed, or the fiduciary's powers cease at any time before the real property sold is conveyed, a successor fiduciary may be substituted as a party to the action and may convey real property, whether sold before or after the successor fiduciary's appointment. The successor fiduciary may also be requir...

...Any interest in real property, whether legal or equitable, that the deceased had a right to sell or dispose of at the time of the deceased's death, or of which the ward was seized at the time the action was brought, including coal, iron ore, limestone, fireclay, or other mineral upon or under the real property, or the right to mine them, may be sold by an executor, administrator, or guardian under sections 2127...

...When the interest of a decedent or ward in real property is fractional and undivided, the action for authority to sell the real property shall include only the undivided fractional interest, except that the executor, administrator, or guardian, the owner of any other fractional interest, or any lien holder may, by pleading filed in the cause setting forth all interests in the property and liens on the property...

...An action by an executor, administrator, or guardian to obtain authority to sell real property shall be brought in the county in which the executor, administrator, or guardian was appointed or in which the real property subject to sale or any part of the property is situated. If the action is brought in a county other than that in which the real property or a part of the property is situated, a certified transc...

...An action to obtain authority to sell real property shall be commenced by the executor, administrator, or guardian by filing a complaint with the probate court. The complaint shall contain a description of the real property proposed to be sold and its value, as near as can be ascertained, a statement of the nature of the interest of the decedent or ward in the real property, a recital of all mortgages and lie...

...When the actual market value of a decedent's or ward's real property to be sold is less than three thousand dollars, and the court so finds, it may by summary order authorize the sale and conveyance of the real property at private sale, on the terms that it considers proper, and in that proceeding, all requirements of sections 2127.01 to 2127.43 of the Revised Code, as to service of summons, appraisal, and addi...

... mortgagees and other lienholders whose claims affect the real property or any part of it; (D) If the interest subject to sale is equitable, all persons holding legal title to the interest or any part of it, and those who are entitled to the purchase money for it, other than creditors; (E) If a fraudulent transfer is sought to be set aside, all persons holding or claiming under the transfer; (F) All other per...

...s defendant; (D) All lienholders whose claims affect the real property or any part of the property; (E) If the interest subject to the sale is equitable, all persons holding legal title to the real property or any part of the property; (F) All other persons having an interest in the real property, other than creditors.

...Service of summons, actual or constructive, in an action to sell the real property of a decedent or a ward shall be had as in other civil actions, but if any competent person in interest enters appearance or consents in writing to the sale, service on that person shall not be necessary. If all parties consent in writing to the sale, an order for the sale may issue forthwith.

...All pleadings and proceedings in an action to obtain authority to sell the real property of a decedent or a ward in the probate court shall be the same as in other civil actions, except as otherwise provided in sections 2127.01 to 2127.43 of the Revised Code.

...In a sale of real property by an executor, administrator, or guardian, the real property shall be sold free of all right and expectancy of dower in the property, but out of the proceeds of the sale, in lieu of dower, the court shall allow to the person having any dower interest in the property a sum in money that is the just and reasonable value of the dower, unless the answer of the person waives that allowanc...

...In an action to obtain authority to sell real property, if a party in the party's answer objects to an order for the sale of real property by an executor, administrator, or guardian, and on hearing it appears to the court that either the complaint or the objection is unreasonable, it may award costs to the party prevailing on that issue.

...Upon the hearing of an action to obtain authority to sell real property by an executor, administrator, or guardian, if satisfied that all necessary parties defendant are properly before the court, and that the demand for relief ought to be granted, the court may determine the equities among the parties and the priorities of lien of the several lien holders on the real property, and order a distribution of the m...

...When an action to obtain authority to sell real property is determined by the probate court, the probate judge shall make the necessary order for an entry of release and satisfaction of all mortgages and other liens upon the real property except the mortgage that is assumed by the purchaser. The executor, administrator, or guardian shall enter the release and satisfaction, together with a memorandum of the titl...

...The probate court, with the consent of the mortgagee, may authorize the sale of lands subject to mortgage, but the giving of any such consent shall release the estate of the decedent or ward should a deficit later appear.

...If a guardian's complaint in an action to obtain authority to sell real property seeks to have real property laid out in town lots, and the court finds it to the advantage of the ward, it shall authorize the survey and platting of the real property as provided by law. Upon subsequent return of the survey and plat, the court, if it approves it, shall authorize the guardian on behalf of the guardian's ward to sig...

...If an appraisement of the real property is contained in the inventory required of an executor or administrator by section 2115.02 of the Revised Code, and of a guardian by section 2111.14 of the Revised Code, the probate court may order a sale in accordance with the appraisement, or order a new appraisement. If a new appraisement is not ordered, the value set forth in the inventory shall be the appraised value ...

...The appraisers appointed under section 2127.22 of the Revised Code shall agree to truly and impartially appraise the real property at its fair cash value upon actual view and to perform the duties required of them by the order of the court. The appraisement shall be signed by the appraisers, and the officer to whom it is issued shall make return of it to the court for confirmation.

...If a person appointed by the court under section 2127.22 of the Revised Code as an appraiser fails to discharge the person's duties, the probate judge on the judge's own motion or on the motion of the executor, administrator, or guardian may appoint another appraiser.

...Appraisers appointed under section 2127.22 of the Revised Code shall each be paid such compensation as the court thinks proper for services performed by them.

...Upon the return and approval of the appraisement provided for by section 2127.22 of the Revised Code, the court shall require the executor, administrator, or guardian to execute a bond with two or more personal sureties, or one or more corporate sureties, whose qualifications shall be those provided by section 2109.17 of the Revised Code. The bond shall be payable to the state in an amount that the court consid...

...The probate court may, after notice to all parties in interest, allow a real estate commission in an action to sell real property by an executor, administrator, or guardian, but an allowance shall be passed upon by the court prior to the sale. The court may allow payment for certificate or abstract of title or policy of title insurance in connection with the sale of any real property by an executor, administr...

...When the bond required by section 2127.27 of the Revised Code is filed and approved by the court, it shall order the sale of the real property included in the complaint set forth in section 2127.10 of the Revised Code, or the part of the real property it considers necessary for the interest of all parties concerned. If the complaint alleges that it is necessary to sell part of the real property, and that by the...

...If the order of sale set forth in section 2127.29 of the Revised Code includes real property in which the ward or the estate has an equitable interest only, the court may make an order for the appraisement and sale of that equitable estate free from dower, for the indemnity of the estate against any claim for purchase money, and for payment of the value of the dower in money, as the court considers equitable, h...

...An order to sell the real property of a decedent shall not be granted in an action by an executor or administrator, if, after the action is commenced and before the order of sale is granted, any person interested in the estate gives bond to the executor or administrator in a sum with sureties approved by the probate court, conditioned to pay all debts and legacies found due from the estate, the charges of administrat...

...(A) An issuer that honors a beneficiary's presentation is subrogated to the rights of the beneficiary to the same extent as if the issuer were a secondary obligor of the underlying obligation owed to the beneficiary and of the applicant to the same extent as if the issuer were the secondary obligor of the underlying obligation owed to the applicant. (B) An applicant that reimburses an issuer is subrogated to the rig...

...lities incurred for which the warehouse claims a lien or security interest, unless the precise amount of advances made or liabilities incurred, at the time of the issue of the receipt, is unknown to the warehouse or to its agent that issued the receipt, in which case a statement of the fact that advances have been made or liabilities incurred and the purpose of the advances or liabilities is sufficient. (C) A ...

...s to the time and manner of presenting claims and commencing actions based on the bailment may be included in the warehouse receipt or storage agreement.

...Title under warehouse receipt defeated in certain cases [UCC 7-205] A buyer in ordinary course of business of fungible goods sold and delivered by a warehouse that is also in the business of buying and selling such goods takes the goods free of any claim under a warehouse receipt even if the receipt is negotiable and has been duly negotiated.

...Lien of warehouse [UCC 7-209] (A) A warehouse has a lien against the bailor on the goods covered by a warehouse receipt or storage agreement or on the proceeds thereof in its possession for charges for storage or transportation, including demurrage and terminal charges, insurance, labor, or other charges, present or future, in relation to the goods, and for expenses necessary for preservation of the goods or ...

...s to the time and manner of presenting claims and commencing actions based on the shipment may be included in a bill of lading or a transportation agreement.

...Rights acquired by due negotiation [UCC 7-502] (A) Subject to sections 1307.205 and 1307.503 of the Revised Code, a holder to which a negotiable document of title has been duly negotiated acquires thereby: (1) title to the document; (2) title to the goods; (3) all rights accruing under the law of agency or estoppel, including rights to goods delivered to the bailee after the document was issued; and (4) th...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (B) and (C) of this section, a purchaser of a certificated or uncertificated security acquires all rights in the security that the transferor had or had power to transfer. (B) A purchaser of a limited interest acquires rights only to the extent of the interest purchased. (C) A purchaser of a certificated security who as a previous holder had notice of an adverse claim...

...(A) A person who originates an entitlement order to a securities intermediary warrants to the securities intermediary that: (1) The entitlement order is made by an appropriate person, or if the entitlement order is by an agent, the agent has actual authority to act on behalf of the appropriate person; and (2) There is no adverse claim to the security entitlement. (B) A person who delivers a security certificate to...

...(A) An indorsement may be in blank or special. An indorsement in blank includes an indorsement to bearer. A special indorsement specifies to whom a security is to be transferred or who has power to transfer it. A holder may convert a blank indorsement to a special indorsement. (B) An indorsement purporting to be only of part of a security certificate representing units intended by the issuer to be separately transfe...

..., security interests, restrictions, and claims other than those specified in the instruction. (D) A guarantor under divisions (A) and (B) of this section or a special guarantor under division (C) of this section does not otherwise warrant the rightfulness of the transfer. (E) A person who guarantees an indorsement of a security certificate makes the warranties of a signature guarantor under division (A) of this sec...

...(A) The interest of a debtor in a certificated security may be reached by a creditor only by actual seizure of the security certificate by the officer making the attachment or levy, except as otherwise provided in division (D) of this section. However, a certificated security for which the certificate has been surrendered to the issuer may be reached by a creditor by legal process upon the issuer. (B) The interest o...

...es intermediary, and are not subject to claims of creditors of the securities intermediary, except as otherwise provided in section 1308.61 of the Revised Code. (B) An entitlement holder's property interest with respect to a particular financial asset under division (A) of this section is a pro rata property interest in all interests in that financial asset held by the securities intermediary, without regard to the ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Purchase-money collateral" means goods or software that secures a purchase-money obligation incurred with respect to that collateral; and (2) "Purchase-money obligation" means an obligation of an obligor incurred as all or part of the price of the collateral or for value given to enable the debtor to acquire rights in or the use of the collateral if the value is in fact so used. (...

...(A) Except as provided in divisions (C), (D), and (E) of this section, any description of personal or real property is sufficient whether or not it is specific if it reasonably identifies what is described. (B) Except as otherwise provided in division (D) of this section, a description of collateral reasonably identifies the collateral if it identifies the collateral by: (1) Specific listing; (2) Category; (3) E...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, a security agreement may create or provide for a security interest in after-acquired collateral. (B) A security interest does not attach under a term constituting an after-acquired property clause to: (1) Consumer goods other than accessions when given as additional security unless the debtor acquires rights in them within ten days after the secured party ...

... in the accession has priority over the claims of every person having an interest in the whole. (F) A secured party that removes an accession from other goods under division (E) of this section shall promptly reimburse any holder of a security interest or other lien on, or owner of, the whole or of the other goods, other than the debtor, for the cost of repair of any physical injury to the whole or the other goods. ...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, a bank with which a deposit account is maintained may exercise any right of recoupment or set-off against a secured party that holds a security interest in the deposit account. (B) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, the application of this chapter to a security interest in a deposit account does not affect a right of recoupm...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, a term in a lease agreement is not effective to the extent that it: (1) Prohibits, restricts, or requires the consent of a party to the lease to the assignment or transfer of, or the creation, attachment, perfection, or enforcement of a security interest in, an interest of a party under the lease contract or in the lessor's residual interest in the go...

...(A) A term in a letter of credit or a rule of law, statute, regulation, custom, or practice applicable to the letter of credit that prohibits, restricts, or requires the consent of an applicant, issuer, or nominated person to a beneficiary's assignment of or creation of a security interest in a letter-of-credit right is not effective to the extent that the term or rule or law, statute, regulation, custom, or practice...

...(A) A person may file in the filing office an information statement with respect to a record indexed there under the person's name if the person believes that the record is inaccurate or was wrongfully filed. (B) An information statement under division (A) of this section must: (1) Identify the record to which it relates by: (a) The file number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the record ...

...(A) As used in this section, "notification date" means the earlier of the date on which: (1) A secured party sends to the debtor and any secondary obligor an authenticated notification of disposition. or (2) The debtor and any secondary obligor waive the right to notification. (B) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, a secured party who disposes of collateral under section 1309.610 of the Revised Co...

...(A) A secured party who desires to accept collateral in full or partial satisfaction of the obligation it secures shall send its proposal to: (1) Any person from whom the secured party has received, before the debtor consented to the acceptance, an authenticated notification of a claim of an interest in the collateral; (2) Any other secured party or lienholder who, ten days before the debtor consented to the accept...

...the supply contract and all defenses or claims arising from the terms. (B) The extension of the benefit of a supplier's promises and of warranties to the lessee as provided in division (A) of this section does not do either of the following: (1) Modify the rights and obligations of the parties to the supply contract, whether arising from the contract or otherwise; (2) Impose any duty or liability under the supply ...

...(A) Words or conduct relevant to the creation of an express warranty and words or conduct tending to negate or limit a warranty shall be construed wherever reasonable as consistent with each other, but, subject to the provisions of section 1310.09 of the Revised Code on parol or extrinsic evidence, negation or limitation is inoperative to the extent that the construction is unreasonable. (B) Subject to division (C) ...