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...The director of environmental protection may issue orders requiring an owner or operator who is subject to this chapter to abate a violation of section 3753.06 of the Revised Code. The director may issue such orders as final orders without issuing a proposed action under section 3745.07 of the Revised Code and, notwithstanding section 119.06 of the Revised Code, without the necessity to hold an adjudication hearing. ...

... division shall be credited to the risk management plan reporting fund created in section 3753.05 of the Revised Code. (C) Upon the certified written request of any person, the director shall conduct investigations and make inquiries that are necessary to secure compliance with this chapter or rules adopted or orders issued under it. The director, upon request or upon the director's own initiative, may investigate o...

...nvestigates, reviews, or accepts a risk management plan from an owner or operator who is subject to this chapter unless an action or omission of the state, or of an officer or employee of the state, constitutes willful or wanton misconduct or intentionally tortious conduct. Any action brought against the state under this division shall be brought in the court of claims. (C)(1) This section does not create, and shall...

...Whoever purposely violates division (D) of section 3753.03 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than twenty thousand dollars and imprisoned for not more than one year, or both. Each day of violation is a separate offense.

...al appraisal practice. (B) "Appraisal management company" means any person authorized either by a creditor of a consumer credit transaction secured by a consumer's principal dwelling, or by an underwriter o f or other principal in the secondary mortgage markets, that performs appraisal management services in connection with valuing properties collateralizing mortgage loans or valuing properties collateralizing mort...

...t to engage in business as an appraisal management company; (b) Directly or indirectly engage in or attempt to perform appraisal management services; (c) Advertise or hold itself out as engaging in or conducting business as an appraisal management company. (2) A person that violates division (A)(1) of this section may be subject to sanctions under section 4768.14 of the Revised Code. (B) This chapter shall no...

...able fees: (a) The initial appraisal management company license fee, which shall not exceed two thousand dollars; (b) The annual renewal fee, which shall not exceed two thousand dollars; (c) The late filing fee, which shall not exceed one thousand dollars, for the renewal of a license under division (C) of section 4768.07 of the Revised Code. (3) Requirements for settlement agreements that the superintend...

...he names and addresses of all appraisal management companies issued a license under this chapter; (5) Perform any other functions and duties, including the employment of staff, necessary to administer this chapter; (6) Administer this chapter; (7) Issue all orders necessary to implement this chapter; (8) Investigate complaints, upon the motion of the superintendent of real estate and professional licensing or...

...The real estate appraiser board or the superintendent of real estate and professional licensing may compel, by order or subpoena, the attendance of witnesses to testify in relation to any matter over which the board or the superintendent has jurisdiction and that is the subject of the inquiry and investigation by the board or superintendent and may require the production of any book, paper, or document pertaining to ...

...(A) To obtain an appraisal management company license, each applicant shall submit all of the following to the superintendent of real estate and professional licensing: (1) A completed application on a form the superintendent provides; (2) The name of a controlling person who will be the main contact between the appraisal management company and the division of real estate and professional licensing and the real...

...(A) An appraisal management company licensed under this chapter may obtain a renewal license by filing an annual renewal application with the superintendent of real estate and professional licensing and paying the renewal fee established under division (A)(2) of section 4768.03 of the Revised Code. The renewal application shall include a statement, signed by the licensee's controlling person, that states all of the f...

...The superintendent of real estate and professional licensing may refuse to issue a license to an applicant under this chapter based upon any act or omission for which a person, including a licensee, may be disciplined under division (K) of section 4768.13 of the Revised Code or may refuse to renew a license if the licensee has failed to comply with this chapter. If the superintendent refuses to issue or renew a licen...

...(A) An appraisal management company shall not remove the appraiser from its appraiser panel or otherwise refuse to assign requests for real estate appraisal services to the appraiser without first doing both of the following: (1) Notifying the appraiser in writing of the reasons the appraiser is being removed from the appraiser panel or is refused assignment requests for appraisal services; (2) Providing the appr...

...(A) Each appraisal management company licensed under this chapter shall maintain all of the following items for a period of at least five years from the date the appraisal report is submitted to the client: (1) The original or true copy of every request relating to the report that the appraisal management company receives from the client; (2) The original or true copy of each request sent to an appraiser who is c...

...ctor, officer, or agent of an appraisal management company licensed under this chapter shall recklessly influence or attempt to influence the development, reporting, or review of an appraisal through coercion, extortion, collusion, compensation, instruction, inducement, intimidation, bribery, or in any other manner, including the following: (1) Withholding or threatening to withhold timely payment for appraisal ser...

...(A) An appraisal management company licensed under this chapter shall compensate an appraiser for the completion of an appraisal within sixty days of the date on which the appraiser transmits or otherwise provides the completed appraisal to the appraisal management company or its assignees, except in cases of breach of contract or substandard performance of services. (B)(1) An appraisal management company licensed ...

...inst any person, including an appraisal management company licensed under this chapter, to which any of the following grounds apply: (1) The person procured or attempted to procure a license under this chapter by knowingly making a false statement, submitting false information, refusing to provide complete information in response to a question in an application for l icensure, or by any means of fraud or misreprese...

...(A) Upon receipt of a written complaint or upon the superintendent of real estate and professional licensing's own motion, the superintendent may investigate any person that allegedly violated division (A)(1) of section 4768.02 of the Revised Code. (B) If, after investigation, the superintendent determines there exists reasonable evidence of a violation of division (A)(1) of section 4768.02 of the Revised Code, wi...

...The superintendent of real estate and professional licensing shall deposit all moneys collected under this chapter into the state treasury to the credit of the real estate operating fund created under section 4735.211 of the Revised Code.

...(A) Whoever violates division (A)(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), or (9) or division (C) of section 4768.11 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree. (B) Whoever violates division (A)(10), (11), (12), or (13) of section 4768.11 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

... or interruption, such companies may consolidate themselves into a single company or either company may merge or be merged into the other. Where the railroad of any railroad company in this state is connected with the railroad of another railroad company by means of an intervening railroad, held and operated by either of such companies under lease or over which either of such companies has the right to operate under ...

...he boundary line of, this state, may consolidate its capital stock, property, and franchises with those of a company in this or any other state, organized for a like purpose, whose railroad has been projected, constructed, or is in process of construction to the same point, or either company may merge or be merged into the other when the railroads so united and constructed will form a continuous or connected but not ...

...A railroad company formed by the consolidation of a company of this state with a company of another state, or the surviving company in case of a merger of such companies, may make a further consolidation or merger with a company of this state, or of this state and any other state, or of another state or states, owning or operating over continuous, connected, but not parallel or competing lines. This section or sectio...

...A consolidation or merger of railroad companies shall be effected by each railroad company adopting an agreement of merger or consolidation pursuant to section 1701.78, 1701.79, 1701.80, or 1701.801 of the Revised Code and making the filings required by section 1701.81 of the Revised Code.

...A stockholder who dissents in a consolidation or merger of railroad companies pursuant to section 4967.04 of the Revised Code is entitled to relief as a dissenting shareholder under section 1701.85 of the Revised Code.