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... (2) "Public office" includes any state agency, public institution, political subdivision, or other organized body, office, agency, institution, or entity established by the laws of this state for the exercise of any function of government. "Public office" does not include the nonprofit corporation formed under section 187.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "State agency" includes every department, bureau, board, commissi...

...(A) If a state agency or political subdivision is required by law or by an ordinance or resolution adopted under division (C) of this section to award a contract to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder, a bidder on the contract shall be considered responsive if the bidder's proposal responds to bid specifications in all material respects and contains no irregularities or deviations from the specifications whi...

...United States environmental protection agency for approval. (2) On and after the date on which the United States environmental protection agency approves the state program submitted under division (A)(1) of this section, the authority to enforce terms and conditions of NPDES permits previously issued under division (J) of section 6111.03 or under section 6111.035 of the Revised Code for the discharging, tran...

... blends of such seed. (C) "Certifying agency" means an agency authorized by the laws of a state or a foreign country to certify officially seed, tubers for seeding purposes, or plants for varietal identification or for other factors and, in the case of seed, an agency determined by the United States secretary of agriculture to follow procedures and standards of seed certification comparable to those generally follo...

... session of the general assembly, each agency required to submit reports or similar documents to the general assembly pursuant to section 103.43, 3301.07, 5139.33, 5501.07, 5537.17, or 5593.21 of the Revised Code shall send written notice to each member of the general assembly in order to determine whether the member desires to personally receive the reports or similar documents as they are made available by ...

...rds and procedures to be followed by an agency in drafting a rule that is to be codified into the administrative code. The director shall periodically revise and publish a new edition of the manual to maintain the uniformity of the administrative code. In preparing and updating the rule drafting manual, the director shall consider sections 1.31 and 1.41 to 1.59 of the Revised Code and apply the principles of statutor...

... or is to sell a representative office, agency, or branch the foreign bank is licensed to operate in this state, prior to the reorganization or sale, both of the following must be done, whether or not the resulting or acquiring corporation will continue to conduct business at any location where the foreign bank being acquired or selling the representative office, agency, or branch is conducting business: (1) The cor...

...uding a performance audit, of any state agency or institution of higher education as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code, the auditor of state, an employee of the auditor of state, and any independent accountants or consultants contracted by the auditor of state as necessary to carry out the statutory responsibilities of the auditor of state, may request access to any system the agency or institution uses...

...e permitted to register as an executive agency lobbyist under division (A) or (B) of section 121.62 of the Revised Code if the person is convicted of or pleads guilty to committing on or after the effective date of this section any felony offense listed or described in divisions (A)(1) to (6) of section 101.721 of the Revised Code in the circumstances specified in the particular division. (B) If an executive agenc...

... section 119.03 of the Revised Code, an agency shall: (A) Evaluate the draft rule against the business impact analysis instrument. If, based on that evaluation, the draft rule will not have an adverse impact on businesses, the agency may proceed with the rule-filing process. If the evaluation determines that the draft rule will have an adverse impact on businesses, the agency shall incorporate features into the draf...

...The department of development shall: (A) Assemble, analyze, and make available to governmental agencies and the public, information relative to the human, natural, and economic resources and economic needs of the state; (B) Prepare and maintain, in cooperation with departments and agencies of the state, comprehensive plans and recommendations for promotion of more desirable patterns of growth and development of the...

...lind education services. (B) A state agency that wishes to administer a project under division (A) of this section shall submit a request for authorization through the Ohio administrative knowledge system capital improvements application. Upon the release of funds for the projects by the controlling board or the director of budget and management, the agency may administer the capital project or projects for which ...

...o compete. (B) To the extent that any agency of the state, other than the department of administrative services, the legislative and judicial branches, boards of elections, and the adjutant general, is authorized to make purchases, the agency shall set aside a number of purchases, the aggregate value of which equals approximately fifteen per cent of the aggregate value of such purchases for the current fiscal year ...

...und and budget estimates for each state agency, except such estimates as are required under section 126.022 of the Revised Code. The budget estimates for each state agency for which direct appropriations are proposed shall include the following details: (A) Estimates of the operating budget; (B) Estimates of the subsidy appropriations necessary, delineated by a distinct subsidy program; (C) Estimates for special ...

...w of the United States and a branch or agency of a bank that is not organized under the law of the United States or a state are located: (1) In the state that the law of the United States designates, if the law designates a state of location; (2) In the state that the registered organization, branch, or agency designates, if the law of the United States authorizes the registered organization, branch, or agenc...

...(A) No state agency shall incur an obligation which exceeds the agency's current appropriation authority. Except as provided in division (D) of this section, unexpended balances of appropriations shall, at the close of the period for which the appropriations are made, revert to the funds from which the appropriations were made, except that the director of budget and management shall transfer such unexpended balances ...

...est. (3) "Commercial credit reporting agency" means any person or entity that regularly engages in the practice of compiling and maintaining commercial credit reports on a business operating in this state for the purpose of providing commercial credit reports and, for monetary fees, dues, or on a cooperative nonprofit basis, provides such commercial credit reports on a business operating in this state to third part...

...f this chapter: (a) Any state or local agency, or part of a state or local agency, that performs as its principal function any activity relating to the enforcement of the criminal laws, including police efforts to prevent, control, or reduce crime or to apprehend criminals; (b) The criminal courts; (c) Prosecutors; (d) Any state or local agency or part of any state or local agency that is a correction, probation,...

...financial institutions or an applicable agency pursuant to this chapter are not public records for the purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code and shall not be disclosed except in accordance with this section. The name of a sandbox participant and an overview of a sandbox participant's novel financial product or service are public records and may be disclosed. (B) The superintendent or applicable agency may ...

...nds derived from the nonprofit hospital agency, a public hospital agency, pursuant to negotiation and in the manner determined in its sole discretion by the governing body of the public hospital agency, may enter into a contract for the acquisition, construction, improvement, equipment, or furnishing of a hospital facility that is to be leased pursuant to section 140.05 of the Revised Code by a public hospital agency...

... Whenever the state forest fire control agency of a member state requests aid from the state forest fire control agency of any other member state in combating, controlling, or preventing forest fires, it shall be the duty of the state forest fire control agency of that state to render all possible aid to the requesting agency which is consonant with the maintenance of protection at home. ARTICLE V Whenever the forc...

...s and programs. (D) "Person" means any agency of this state, any political subdivision of this state or of the United States, and any legal entity defined as a person under section 1.59 of the Revised Code. (E) "Director" means the director of natural resources or the director's designee. (F) "Permanent structure" means any residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, or agricultural building, any mobile ho...

...red into by either the chief or another agency of the state with persons who agree to furnish the materials, equipment, work, and labor as specified and provided in such a contract for activities associated with the restoration or plugging of an orphaned well as determined by the chief. If another agency of the state enters into the contract, the chief shall prepare the scope of work for the restoration or plugging o...

...icipal corporation, or other government agency of the state in the planning of works for ground water recharge, flood mitigation, floodplain management, flood control, flow capacity and stability of streams, rivers, and watercourses, or the establishment of water conservation practices, within the limits of the appropriations for those purposes; (B) Have authority to conduct basic inventories of the water and relat...

... Code unless the person or governmental agency applying for the permit executes and files a surety bond conditioned on completion of the dam or levee in accordance with the terms of the permit and the plans and specifications approved by the chief. Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, the surety bond shall equal: (a) $50,000 for the first $500,000 of the estimated cost of the project; plus (b)...