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...(A) No credit services organization shall conduct business in this state unless the organization has obtained a surety bond issued by a surety company authorized to do business in this state and all of the following conditions are met: (1) A copy of the bond is filed with the division of financial institutions. (2) The bond is in favor of any person, and of the state for the benefit of any person, that is injured b...

...(A)(1) A buyer injured by a violation of sections 4712.01 to 4712.14 of the Revised Code may bring an action for recovery of damages. (2) Damages awarded under division (A)(1) of this section shall not be less than the amount paid by the buyer to the credit services organization, plus reasonable attorney's fees and court costs. (3) The buyer may be awarded punitive damages. (4) No action shall be brought under div...

...(A) Members of the board of embalmers and funeral directors shall annually in July, or within thirty days after the senate's confirmation of the new members appointed in that year, meet and organize by selecting from among its members a president, vice-president, and secretary-treasurer. The board may hold other meetings as it determines necessary. A quorum of the board consists of four members, of whom at least thre...

...(A) Any person, on an antemortem basis, may serve as the person's own authorizing agent, authorize the person's own cremation, and specify the arrangements for the final disposition of the person's own cremated remains by executing an antemortem cremation authorization form. A guardian, custodian, or other personal representative who is authorized by law or contract to do so on behalf of a person, on an antemortem ba...

...(A) A cremation authorization form authorizing the cremation of a dead human body, other than one that was donated to science for purposes of medical education or research, shall include at least all of the following information and statements: (1) A statement that the decedent has been identified in accordance with division (B) of this section; (2) The name of the funeral director or other individual who obtaine...

...(A) A cremation authorization form authorizing the cremation of any body parts, including, without limitation, dead human bodies that were donated to science for purposes of medical education or research shall include at least all of the following information and statements, as applicable: (1) The identity of the decedent whose body was donated to science for purposes of medical education or research or the identity...

...alleged to have violated that provision claims that the person or the person's actions comes within an exemption in division (B) of section 4719.01 or division (H) of section 4719.07 of the Revised Code, the person has the burden of proving that the exemption applies to the person or the person's actions.

...After satisfying the lien and costs that may accrue, the residue, on demand within six months thereafter, shall be paid to the guest or boarder to whom the property belonged or by whom it was controlled, and if not demanded, shall be deposited by such innkeeper with the county treasurer of the county in which such inn is situated, with a statement of the innkeeper's claim, the cost of enforcing it, a copy of the publ...

...(A) Except as provided in section 4725.26 of the Revised Code, no person shall engage in the practice of optometry, including the determination of the kind of procedure, treatment, or optical accessories needed by a person or the examination of the eyes of any person for the purpose of fitting the same with optical accessories, unless the person holds a current, valid certificate of licensure from the state vision pr...

...The superintendent of financial institutions shall, either personally, or by such person as the superintendent may appoint for the purpose, at least once every eighteen months, and more often if deemed advisable, investigate the business of every person licensed as a pawnbroker, and of every person by whom or for which any such loan or purchase shall be made, whether such person shall act, or claim to act, as princip...

...(A) A person licensed as a pawnbroker shall retain any goods or articles purchased by the licensee until the expiration of fifteen days after the purchase is made. The licensee may dispose of such goods or articles sooner with the written permission of the chief of police of the municipal corporation or township in which the licensee's place of business is located or, if the place of business is not located within a ...

..., partnership, or corporation acts, or claims to act, as principal, agent, or broker, or under, or without the authority of this chapter, and for that purpose shall have free access to the books and papers thereof and other sources of information with regard to the business of the licensee or person and whether the business has been or is being transacted in accordance with this chapter. The superintendent and eve...

...(A) No person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association, and no agent, officer, or employee thereof, shall violate this chapter. The division of financial institutions upon a criminal conviction shall revoke any license theretofore issued to the person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association. The division also may revoke or suspend the license of any licensee in accordance with section 4728.03 of the R...

...The "Interstate Medical Licensure Compact" is hereby ratified, enacted into law, and entered into by the state of Ohio as a party to the compact with any other state that has legally joined in the compact as follows: INTERSTATE MEDICAL LICENSURE COMPACT SECTION 1. PURPOSE In order to strengthen access to health care, and in recognition of the advances in the delivery of health care, the member states of the In...

...(A) Each person holding a valid license issued under this chapter authorizing the license holder to practice medicine and surgery, osteopathic medicine and surgery, or podiatric medicine and surgery, who is not covered by medical malpractice insurance shall provide a patient with written notice of the license holder's lack of that insurance coverage prior to providing nonemergency professional services to the patient...

...nd other sources concerning malpractice claims against any person holding a license to practice under this chapter or practicing as provided in section 4731.36 of the Revised Code. (E) Each renewal notice provided by the board under division (A)(2) of this section to a person holding a license to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery shall inform the applicant of the reporting requiremen...

...(A) No person shall practice medicine and surgery, or any of its branches, without the appropriate license or certificate from the state medical board to engage in the practice. No person shall advertise or claim to the public to be a practitioner of medicine and surgery, or any of its branches, without a license or certificate from the board. No person shall open or conduct an office or other place for such practice...

...(A)(1) No person shall engage in the practice of podiatric medicine and surgery without a current, valid license to practice podiatric medicine and surgery issued by the state medical board. (2) No person shall advertise or claim to be authorized to practice podiatric medicine and surgery unless the person holds a current, valid license to practice podiatric medicine and surgery issued by the board under this chapte...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Anatomic pathology services," "assignment of benefits," "histologic processing," "insurer," "physician," and "referring clinical laboratory" have the same meanings as in section 3701.86 of the Revised Code. (2) "Professional component of an anatomic pathology service" means the entire anatomic pathology service other than histologic processing. (3) "Technical component of an anato...

... any of the patient's or other person's claims under section 4731.861, 4731.862, 4731.864, or 4731.865 of the Revised Code or remedies under section 4731.869 or 4731.8610 of the Revised Code. Any such provision or waiver is void and unenforceable as against public policy.

...(A) To perfect a lien on commercial real estate referred to in section 4733.301 of the Revised Code, a professional engineer or professional surveyor shall file with the county recorder of the county in which the commercial real estate is located an affidavit as described in division (B) of this section. (B)(1) The affidavit required under division (A) of this section shall include all of the following: (a) The ...

...(A)(1) A professional engineer or professional surveyor holding a lien that has been perfected pursuant to section 4733.302 of the Revised Code may commence proceedings to enforce the lien by filing a complaint in the common pleas court of the county in which the commercial real estate is located. (2) The complaint need not initiate foreclosure proceedings on the lien prior to a court determining the validity of t...

...(A) Any person with an interest in commercial real estate on which a lien has been perfected pursuant to section 4733.302 of the Revised Code, or named in the affidavit required under that section, may apply to the common pleas court of the county in which the commercial real estate is located to substitute financial security for the lien. (B) The substitute security shall be in the amount equal to the professiona...

...(A) The state chiropractic board may take any of the actions specified in division (B) of this section against an individual who has applied for or holds a license to practice chiropractic in this state if any of the reasons specified in division (C) of this section for taking action against an individual are applicable. Except as provided in division (D) of this section, actions taken against an individual shall be ...

... orders of the superintendent regarding claims against the real estate recovery fund; (D) Direct the superintendent on the content, scheduling, instruction, and offerings of real estate courses for salesperson and broker educational requirements; (E) Disseminate to licensees and the public, information relative to commission activities and decisions; (F) Notify licensees of changes in state and federal civil...