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...As used in this chapter: (A) "Public employee" means: (1) Any person holding an office, not elective, under the state or any county, township, municipal corporation, park district, conservancy district, sanitary district, health district, metropolitan housing authority, state retirement board, Ohio history connection, public library, county law library, union cemetery, joint hospital, institutional commissary, ...

...(A) The public employees retirement board shall adopt rules establishing eligibility for any coverage provided under this section. The rules shall base eligibility on years and types of service credit earned by members. Eligibility determinations shall be made in accordance with the rules, except that an individual who, as a result of making a false statement in an attempt to secure a benefit under this section, is c...

...(A) To achieve the purposes of sections 1551.01 to 1551.25 of the Revised Code, the director of development may: (1) Identify, plan, organize, initiate, and sponsor studies, research, and experimental, pilot, and demonstration facilities and projects that would lead to the development and more efficient utilization of present, new, or alternative energy sources in this state, to the conservation of energy, to the at...

...As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (A) "Financial organization" means any bank, trust company, savings bank, safe deposit company, mutual savings bank without mutual stock, savings and loan association, credit union, or investment company. (B)(1) "Unclaimed funds" means any moneys, rights to moneys, or intangible property, described in section 169.02 of the Revised Code, when, as show...

...Subject to division (B) of section 169.01 of the Revised Code, the following constitute unclaimed funds: (A) Except as provided in division (R) of this section, any demand, savings, or matured time deposit account, or matured certificate of deposit, together with any interest or dividend on it, less any lawful claims, that is held or owed by a holder which is a financial organization, unclaimed for a period of fiv...

...(A) The following acts and practices are hereby prohibited and declared unlawful as applied to the planning, conducting, or executing of any solicitation of contributions for a charitable organization or charitable purpose or to the planning, conducting, or executing of a charitable sales promotion: (1) Committing any deceptive act or practice; (2) Misleading any person as to any material fact concerning the soli...

...The department of aging shall adopt, and may rescind, rules as necessary to carry out the provisions of Chapter 173. of the Revised Code and may: (A) Provide technical assistance and consultation to public and private nonprofit agencies with respect to programs, services, and activities for elderly people; (B) Cooperate with federal agencies, other state agencies or departments, and organizations to conduct studies...

...As used in sections 173.14 to 173.28 of the Revised Code: (A)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2) of this section, "long-term care facility" includes any residential facility that provides personal care services for more than twenty-four hours for one or more unrelated adults, including all of the following: (a) A "nursing home," "residential care facility," or "home for the aging," as those terms ar...

...(A) The state long-term care ombudsman shall do all of the following: (1) Appoint a staff and direct and administer the work of the staff; (2) Oversee the performance and operation of the office of the state long-term care ombudsman program, including the operation of regional long-term care ombudsman programs; (3) Establish and maintain a statewide uniform reporting system to collect and analyze information relat...

...The office of the state long-term care ombudsman program shall, in carrying out the provisions and purposes of sections 173.14 to 173.26 of the Revised Code, advise, consult, and cooperate with any agency, program, or other entity related to the purposes of the office. Any agency, program, or other entity related to the purposes of the office shall advise, consult, and cooperate with the office. The office shall att...

...(A) A small employer health care alliance may do any of the following: (1) Negotiate and enter into agreements with one or more insurers for the insurers to offer and provide one or more health benefit plans to small employers for their employees and retirees, and the dependents and members of the families of such employees and retirees, which coverage may be made available to enrolled small employers without regar...

...As used in sections 1739.01 to 1739.22 of the Revised Code: (A) "Agreement" means a written agreement executed by members of a multiple employer welfare arrangement that establishes an arrangement, provides for its operation, and through which each member agrees to assume and discharge all liability under sections 1739.01 to 1739.22 of the Revised Code relating to or arising out of the operation of the arrangement i...

...(A) No employer shall enter into an agreement to participate in a group self-insurance program unless the multiple employer welfare arrangement has been issued a certificate of authority by the superintendent of insurance. Employers or other organizers that propose to create an arrangement or arrangements and provide benefits through a group self-insurance program or group self-insurance programs shall apply to the s...

...The third frontier commission shall conduct outreach activities described in section 184.172 of the Revised Code that seek to include minorities in the various projects and initiatives sponsored, funded, encouraged, or otherwise promoted by the commission. The commission shall direct the activities at faculty and students involved in science and engineering disciplines, professional scientists and engineers, technica...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Metropolitan statistical area" means an area of this state that is designated a metropolitan statistical area or primary metropolitan statistical area in United States office of management and budget bulletin No. 04-03, February 18, 2004, and its attachments, and the designated area is located entirely within this state. An area of this state that is designated a metropolitan statis...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Genocide" means an internationally recognized crime where the following acts are committed against a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group's members with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, the group: (1) Killing; (2) Causing serious bodily or mental harm; (3) Deliberately inflicting life conditions calculated to bring about physical destruction, in whole or in par...

...(A) In addition to those investments made eligible by section 2109.37 or 2109.372 of the Revised Code, investments may be made by a fiduciary other than a guardian under sections 5905.01 to 5905.19 of the Revised Code, and subject to the restriction placed on an administrator or executor by division (B) of section 2109.37 of the Revised Code, in any of the following kinds and classes of securities, provided tha...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Short term trust-quality investment fund" means a short term investment fund that meets both of the following conditions: (a) The fund may be either a collective investment fund established in accordance with section 1111.14 of the Revised Code or a registered investment company, including any affiliated investment company whether or not the fiduciary has invested other funds h...

... used in this chapter: (1) "Adequate parental care" means the provision by a child's parent or parents, guardian, or custodian of adequate food, clothing, and shelter to ensure the child's health and physical safety and the provision by a child's parent or parents of specialized services warranted by the child's physical or mental needs. (2) "Adult" means an individual who is eighteen years of age or older. ...

...A juvenile court may participate with other public or private agencies of the county served by the court in programs that have as their objective the prevention and control of juvenile delinquency. The juvenile judge may assign employees of the court, as part of their regular duties, to work with organizations concerned with combatting conditions known to contribute to delinquency, providing adult sponsors for child...

...As used in this section and sections 2305.251 to 2305.253 of the Revised Code: (A)(1) "Health care entity" means an entity, whether acting on its own behalf or on behalf of or in affiliation with other health care entities, that conducts as part of its regular business activities professional credentialing or quality review activities involving the competence of, professional conduct of, or quality of care pr...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Ridesharing arrangement" means the transportation of persons in a motor vehicle where such transportation is incidental to another purpose of a volunteer driver and includes ridesharing arrangements known as carpools, vanpools, and buspools. (2) "Employer" has the same meaning as in section 4123.01 of the Revised Code. (B) An employer shall not be liable for injuries to passengers...

...ed dust, or any representative, spouse, parent, child, or other relative of that person, for injury, including mental or emotional injury, death, or loss to person, risk of disease or other injury, costs of medical monitoring or surveillance, or any other effects on the person's health that are caused by the person's exposure to mixed dust. (O) "Mixed dust pneumoconiosis" means the interstitial lung disease caused b...

...sbestos, or any representative, spouse, parent, child, or other relative of that person, for injury, including mental or emotional injury, death, or loss to person, risk of disease or other injury, costs of medical monitoring or surveillance, or any other effects on the person's health that are caused by the person's exposure to asbestos. (D) "Asbestosis" means bilateral diffuse interstitial fibrosis of the lungs ca...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Down syndrome" means a chromosome disorder associated either with an extra chromosome twenty-one, in whole or in part, or an effective trisomy for chromosome twenty-one. (2) "Physician," "pregnant," and "unborn child" have the same meanings as in section 2919.16 of the Revised Code. (B) No person shall purposely perform or induce or attempt to perform or induce an abortion on a pr...

...(A) The board of county commissioners of any county may contract for, purchase, or otherwise procure and pay all or any part of the cost of any of the following insurance, coverage, or benefits issued by an insurance company or administered by a board of county commissioners or a contractor, for county officers and employees and their immediate dependents from the funds or budgets from which the county officers...