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... be tested and shall be licensed by the superintendent of insurance in accordance with rules adopted by the superintendent. (B) An administrator who has been licensed or certified by the state of the administrator's domicile under a statute or rule similar to sections 3959.01 to 3959.16 of the Revised Code shall, upon application, be licensed without testing, provided the state of domicile recognizes and grants lice...

...If the superintendent of insurance denies the application for license, the superintendent shall promptly notify the applicant of the denial and the reasons for the denial within thirty days of the date the application is denied by the superintendent. The notice shall advise the applicant of the applicant's right to request a hearing within thirty days from the date of the mailing of the notice.

...broker residing in this state. (B) The superintendent of insurance may require or exempt a risk retention group from participation in any joint underwriting association established under section 3930.03 or in the plan established under section 4509.70 of the Revised Code. Any risk retention group that is required to participate under this division shall submit sufficient information to the superintendent to enable ...

... 3901.26 of the Revised Code. (B) The superintendent of insurance may conduct a market conduct examination of any person regulated by the department of insurance under Title XVII or Title XXXIX of the Revised Code to determine whether any violation of this chapter has occurred. When conducting that type of examination, the superintendent of insurance may assess the costs of the examination against the person ...

...this section, any other line which the superintendent, at the superintendent's sole discretion, permits. (B) A captive insurance company may purchase reinsurance coverage for any risk that a captive insurance company is permitted to write directly. (C)(1) A captive insurance company shall not issue, offer, or present insurance policies or certificates, evidence of coverage, or any other similar documentation,...

...The superintendent may suspend or revoke the license of a captive insurance company, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, for any of the following reasons: (A) Insolvency or impairment of capital or surplus; (B) Failure to meet the requirements of section 3964.05 of the Revised Code; (C) Refusal or failure to submit an annual report, as required by section 3964.07 of the Revised Code, or any o...

...(A) The superintendent may charge captive insurance companies for any of the following expenses incurred in carrying out this chapter: (1) The entire compensation for each day, or portion thereof, worked by all personnel, including those who are not employees of the department of insurance, in any of the following capacities: (a) The conduct of an examination, calculated at the rates provided in the financial c...

...icipants of the protected cell and the superintendent. (B)(1) No sale, exchange, transfer of assets, or distribution may be made from a protected cell to any person without the superintendent's prior written approval. (2) The superintendent shall not give approval if the sale, exchange, transfer, or distribution would result in the insolvency or impairment of the protected cell in question.

...01 to 3903.59 of the Revised Code, the superintendent may apply to the court of common pleas of Franklin county for an order authorizing the superintendent to rehabilitate or liquidate a special purpose financial captive insurance company domiciled in this state on one or both of the following grounds: (1) There has been embezzlement, wrongful sequestration, dissipation, or diversion of the assets of the spec...

...ciled in this state shall submit to the superintendent of insurance a written statement certifying that the insurer is in compliance with the requirements set forth in this section. Each insurer shall maintain for examination by the department of insurance all records, schedules, and data supporting this certificate for a period of five years. To the extent an insurer has identified areas, systems, or processes that ...

...nspected, shall immediately notify the superintendent of industrial compliance in case a defect affecting the safety of the boiler is discovered. The owner or user of any stationary boiler required by such sections to be inspected, who moves the same, shall report to the superintendent the new location of the boiler. Such boiler shall be inspected before it is again operated.

...ding services piping for review to the superintendent of industrial compliance in the department of commerce in accordance with rules the superintendent adopts. The submission shall be accompanied by the fee the superintendent establishes.

...ce sufficient, shall be examined by the superintendent of industrial compliance by a written examination dealing with the construction, installation, operation, maintenance, and repair of elevators and their appurtenances, and the applicant shall be accepted or rejected on the merits of the applicant's application and examination. Except as provided in this section, the superintendent shall issue a certificate of c...

...The superintendent of industrial compliance, with the consent of the director of commerce, shall hire an assistant who has at least ten years of experience in the construction, installation, maintenance, and repair of elevators and their appurtenances. The superintendent, with the consent of the director, and in compliance with Chapter 124. of the Revised Code, may appoint and hire general inspectors of eleva...

...ised Code, under the supervision of the superintendent of industrial compliance, and the superintendent shall enforce this chapter and any rules adopted pursuant thereto. Every inspector shall forward to the superintendent a full and complete report of each inspection made of any elevator and shall, on the day the inspection is completed, leave a copy of such report with the owner or operator of the elevator, ...

..., allowance, or payment of claims. The superintendent of insurance shall enforce this prohibition by such disciplinary orders directed against the offending insurance corporation as the superintendent of insurance deems appropriate in the circumstances and the administrator of workers' compensation shall enforce this prohibition by such disciplinary orders directed against the offending employer as the adminis...

...ised Code. A certificate, signed by the superintendent of liquor control and to which is affixed the official seal of the division, stating that it appears from the records of the division that no permit has been issued to the person specified in the certificate, or that a permit, if issued, has been revoked, canceled, or suspended, shall be received as prima-facie evidence of the facts recited in the certificate in ...

...The superintendent of liquor control may adopt and promulgate, repeal, rescind, and amend, in the manner required by this section, rules, standards, requirements, and orders necessary to carry out the following: (A) Rules and regulations governing the management of the state liquor stores and the manner of conducting them; (B) Standards, not in conflict with those prescribed by any law of this state or the United...

...due to causes beyond the control of the superintendent of liquor control, the superintendent may establish rules which will insure the equitable distribution of such supplies of spirituous liquor as are available. The superintendent may institute and terminate such rules as conditions demand, and also make changes and alterations therein in accordance with specific needs. (B) No permit holder or his employee or agen...

...ame meanings as in rules adopted by the superintendent of liquor control under section 4303.25 of the Revised Code. (2) "Tasting sample" means a small amount of spirituous liquor that is provided in a serving of not more than a quarter ounce of spirituous liquor and, if provided, not more than one ounce of nonalcoholic mixer to an authorized person and that allows the person to determine, by tasting only, the quali...

...of the department of public safety, the superintendent of liquor control, or the division of liquor control, to restrain the exercise of any power or to compel the performance of any duty under Chapters 4301. and 4303. of the Revised Code. Neither the division, the members of the commission, the enforcement agents, nor the superintendent is personally liable in any action at law for damages sustained by any person be...

...d 3901.04 of the Revised Code and the superintendent of insurance shall enforce those sections with respect to insurance companies and insurance agents. The superintendent may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for purposes of administering and enforcing this section and sections 4717.33, 4717.34, 4717.35, and 4717.37 of the Revised Code as those sections apply to insura...

...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...

...ee for a violation of this chapter, the superintendent of financial institutions may suspend the license of the licensee without a prior hearing to protect the public interest and subsequently may act to revoke the license of the licensee pursuant to chapter 119. of the Revised Code. (C) Upon the criminal conviction of a licensee or any employee, manager, officer, director, shareholder, member, or partner of a lice...

...esignation as a principal broker to the superintendent not later than fifteen days after the change occurs. (C) Every principal broker of a brokerage shall do all of the following: (1) Oversee and direct the operations of the brokerage; (2) Comply with the office requirements set forth in division (A) of section 4735.13 and division (A) of section 4735.16 of the Revised Code; (3) Display, as required by divis...

...(A) The superintendent of insurance shall examine the application made under section 1739.03 of the Revised Code to determine whether the multiple employer welfare arrangement will be able to comply with sections 1739.01 to 1739.22 of the Revised Code and any rules adopted pursuant to those sections. If the superintendent finds that the arrangement is capable of complying with such sections, he shall issue a certific...

... of March, shall make and file with the superintendent of insurance an annual report of its affairs and operations during the last preceding calendar year. The report shall be made pursuant to the forms, instructions, and manuals prescribed by the national association of insurance commissioners for the preparation of statutory financial statements and other financial information for domestic insurance companies other...

...(A) The superintendent of insurance, after notice and opportunity for hearing in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, may impose a fine upon a multiple employer welfare arrangement operating a group self-insurance program, a third-party administrator, or other entity after finding either of the following: (1) The arrangement, third-party administrator, or other entity, through the acts of its officers, ...

...nt system that has been approved by the superintendent of insurance to provide adequate and reasonable procedures for the expeditious resolution of written complaints initiated by subscribers or enrollees concerning any matter relating to services provided, directly or indirectly, by the health insuring corporation, including, but not limited to, complaints regarding cancellations or nonrenewals of coverage. Complai...

...BC report that has been adjusted by the superintendent of insurance in accordance with division (C) of section 1753.32 of the Revised Code. (B) "Authorized control level RBC" means the number determined under the risk-based capital formula in accordance with the RBC instructions. (C) "Company action level RBC" means the product of 2.0 and a health insuring corporation's authorized control level RBC. (D) "Correc...

...receiving any of the following from the superintendent of insurance: (1) An adjusted RBC report; (2) Notification that the health insuring corporation's RBC plan or revised RBC plan is unsatisfactory and a statement that the notification constitutes a regulatory action level event for the health insuring corporation; (3) Notification that the superintendent has determined that the health insuring corporation has f...

...onnel management of the district by the superintendent of public instruction prior to the effective date of this amendment or by the director of education and workforce on and after the effective date of this amendment. (2) "Mayor" means the mayor of the municipal corporation containing the greatest portion of a municipal school district's territory. (B) Whenever any municipal school district is released by a f...

...shall specify the reasons for which the superintendent of the district may reduce the expulsion requirement in division (B)(2) of section 3313.66 of the Revised Code. If a board of education adopts a resolution pursuant to division (B)(3) of section 3313.66 of the Revised Code, the policy shall define the term "knife capable of causing serious bodily injury" or "firearm," as applicable, for purposes of expulsion unde...

...ogram under rules of a court. (B) The superintendent of each school district and each educational service center or the president of the district or service center board, if division (C)(1) of this section applies, and the chief administrator of each chartered nonpublic school or the president or chairperson of the governing authority of the nonpublic school, if division (C)(2) of this section applies, shall prompt...

...ooling certificate may be issued by the superintendent of schools to a child over sixteen years of age upon proof acceptable to such superintendent of the following facts and upon agreement to the respective conditions made in writing by the child and by the parents, guardian, or custodian in charge of such child: (1) That the child is addicted to no habit which is likely to detract from the child's reliability or...

...h Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the superintendent of industrial compliance shall: (1) Adopt rules pertaining to the definition, name, and description of materials necessary to carry out this chapter; (2) Determine the testing standards, fees, and charges to be paid for making any test or analysis required pursuant to section 3713.08 of the Revised Code. (B) In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code,...

...e that within that five-year period the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation has requested information about the person from the federal bureau of investigation in a criminal records check, the division shall request that the person obtain through the superintendent a criminal records request from the federal bureau of investigation as part of the criminal records check of the per...

...3901.3810 of the Revised Code. (B) The superintendent of insurance may require third-party payers to submit reports of their compliance with division (A) of this section. If reports are required, the superintendent shall prescribe the content, format, and frequency of the reports in consultation with third-party payers. The superintendent shall not require reports to be submitted more frequently than once every thre...

...BC report that has been adjusted by the superintendent of insurance in accordance with division (C) of section 3903.82 of the Revised Code. (B) "Authorized control level RBC" means the number determined under the risk-based capital formula in accordance with the RBC instructions. (C) "Company action level RBC" means the product of 2.0 and an insurer's authorized control level RBC. (D) "Corrective order" means an o...

...receiving any of the following from the superintendent of insurance: (1) An adjusted RBC report; (2) Notification that the insurer's RBC plan or revised RBC plan is unsatisfactory and a statement that the notification constitutes a regulatory action level event for the insurer; (3) Notification that the superintendent has determined that the insurer has failed to adhere to its RBC plan or revised RBC plan, which f...

...her line of authority designated by the superintendent of insurance. (C)(1) An individual shall not be permitted to take the examination described in division (A) of this section unless one of the following applies: (a) The individual has earned a bachelor's or associate's degree in insurance from an accredited institution. (b) The individual has earned a professional designation approved by the superintendent....

...(A) The superintendent of insurance may issue a temporary insurance agent license to any of the following persons if the superintendent determines that the license is necessary for the servicing of insurance business: (1) The surviving spouse or court-appointed personal representative of a licensed insurance agent who dies or becomes mentally or physically disabled, to allow adequate time for the sale of the insuran...

...(A) The superintendent of insurance may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to do the following: (1) Establish procedures for the issuance, renewal, late renewal, extension, reactivation, and reinstatement of insurance agent licenses; (2) Provide for the issuance and renewal of limited authority licenses, and establish any prelicensing education, examination, or continuing educati...

...There shall be paid to the superintendent of insurance the following fees: (A) Each insurance company doing business in this state shall pay: (1) For filing a copy of its charter or deed of settlement, two hundred fifty dollars; (2) For filing each statement, one hundred seventy-five dollars; (3) For each certificate of authority or license, one hundred seventy-five, and for each certified copy thereof, five doll...

...ed premiums divided by twelve. (2) The superintendent may, in accordance with division (B) of this section, establish by order a minimum financial security benchmark to apply to a specific insurer that exceeds the amount arrived at under division (A)(1) of this section. (3) The superintendent may by rule change the minimum financial security benchmark that is a multiple of authorized control level risk-based c...

...(A) The superintendent may, in accordance with section 119.03 of the Revised Code, adopt rules interpreting and implementing the provisions of this chapter. (B) The superintendent may, in accordance with section 119.03 of the Revised Code, adopt one or more of the following restrictions on investments in rules: (1) The superintendent may prescribe for defined classes of insurers special procedural requirement...

... provisions which in the opinion of the superintendent of insurance are at least as favorable to the defaulting or surrendering policyholder: (1) That in the event of default in any premium payment, the company will grant, upon proper request not later than sixty days after the due date of the premium in default, a paid-up nonforfeiture benefit on a plan stipulated in the policy, effective as of such due date, of su...

...(A) The superintendent of insurance may, except as provided in division (B) of this section, refuse to issue or may suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew the license of a viatical settlement provider or viatical settlement broker, if the superintendent finds that any of the following apply: (1) There was a material misrepresentation in the application for the license. (2) The applicant or licensee or any officer, p...

...nd health insurance shall file with the superintendent of insurance its schedules of premium rates for use in connection with such insurance. Any insurer may revise such schedules from time to time, and shall file such revised schedules with the superintendent. No insurer shall issue any credit life insurance policy for which the premium rate exceeds that determined by the schedules of such insurer as then on file wi...

...hall take effect unless approved by the superintendent of insurance, who shall approve the amendment if the superintendent finds that it has been duly adopted and is not inconsistent with any requirement of the laws of this state or with the character, objects, and purposes of the society. Unless the superintendent disapproves an amendment within sixty days after its filing, the amendment shall be considered to be ap...

...(A)(1) No present or former public official or employee shall, during public employment or service or for twelve months thereafter, represent a client or act in a representative capacity for any person on any matter in which the public official or employee personally participated as a public official or employee through decision, approval, disapproval, recommendation, the rendering of advice, investigation, or other ...

...(A) An employee of the department of rehabilitation and correction may be represented in a criminal proceeding by an attorney selected pursuant to division (B) of this section when all of the following apply: (1) The employee used deadly force that resulted in the death of another. (2) The use of deadly force occurred within the scope and in the course of the employee's assigned duties. (3) The employee's us...

...0 of the Revised Code. (B) Neither the superintendent of financial institutions nor any other employee of the division of financial institutions shall do any of the following: have a business or investment interest, directly or indirectly, in any state bank, trust company, credit union, or consumer finance company that is under the supervision of the superintendent of financial institutions or in any affiliate of an...

...urance company, upon the request of the superintendent of insurance, the chairperson of the authority shall provide to the commissioner or superintendent any statement or information submitted by an applicant or recipient of a tax credit in connection with the credit. The commissioner or superintendent shall preserve the confidentiality of the statement or information. (H) A taxpayer claiming a credit under this s...

...t day of December preceding the day the superintendent of insurance is required to certify to the treasurer of state under section 5725.20 or 5729.05 of the Revised Code the amount of taxes due from insurance companies. (9) "Foreign trade zone" means a general purpose foreign trade zone or a special purpose subzone for which, pursuant to 19 U.S.C. 81a, as amended, a permit for foreign trade zone status has been gr...

...ness managers, administrative officers, superintendents, assistant superintendents, principals, deans, assistant deans, instructors, teachers, and such employees as are engaged in educational or research duties connected with the public school system, colleges, and universities, as determined by the governing body of the public school system, colleges, and universities; (b) The library staff of any library in the st...

...(A) As used in this section, "state employee" means a state employee who does not accrue vacation leave under section 124.134 of the Revised Code. (B) Each full-time state employee or county department of job and family services employee, including full-time hourly rate employees, after service of one year with the state, or any political subdivision of the state, shall have earned and will be due upon the attainmen...

...(A) Each full-time permanent state employee paid in accordance with section 124.152 of the Revised Code and those employees listed in divisions (B)(2) and (4) of section 124.14 of the Revised Code shall be credited with vacation leave with full pay according to length of service and accruing at a corresponding rate per biweekly pay period, as follows: Length of Service Per Pay Period

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Fetal death" has the same meaning as in section 3705.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Stillborn" means that an infant of at least twenty weeks of gestation suffered a fetal death. (B)(1) Each permanent full-time and permanent part-time employee paid in accordance with section 124.152 of the Revised Code and each employee listed in division (B)(2), (3), or (4) of section 124.14 o...

...(A)(1) The director of administrative services shall establish, and may modify or rescind, a job classification plan for all positions, offices, and employments in the service of the state. The director shall group jobs within a classification so that the positions are similar enough in duties and responsibilities to be described by the same title, to have the same pay assigned with equity, and to have the same quali...

...letion of each academic year. (L) The superintendent of Ohio deaf and blind education services shall, subject to the approval of the director of education and workforce, carry out both of the following: (1) Annually, between the first day of April and the last day of June, establish for the ensuing fiscal year a schedule of hourly rates for the compensation of each certificated employee on the instructional staff...

...(A) Forty hours shall be the standard work week for all employees whose salary or wage is paid in whole or in part by the state or by any state-supported college or university. When any employee whose salary or wage is paid in whole or in part by the state or by any state-supported college or university is required by an authorized administrative authority to be in an active pay status more than forty hours in ...

...ory, principal, assistant principal, or superintendent positions who have attained a higher educational level than a basic bachelor's degree may receive an educational pay supplement to remain in effect as long as the employee's assignment and classification remain the same. (1) An educational pay supplement of two and one-half per cent of the employee's classification salary base may be applied upon the achievement...

...(A) Whenever it becomes necessary for an appointing authority to reduce its work force, the appointing authority shall lay off employees or abolish their positions in accordance with sections 124.321 to 124.327 of the Revised Code. If the affected work force is in the service of the state, the reduction shall also be in compliance with the rules of the director of administrative services. (B)(1) Employees may...

...(A) A laid-off employee has the right to displace the employee with the fewest retention points in the following order: (1) Within the classification from which the employee was laid off; (2) Within the classification series from which the employee was laid off; (3) Within the classification the employee held immediately prior to holding the classification from which the employee was laid off, except that t...

...(A) Employees who have been laid off or have, by virtue of exercising their displacement rights, been displaced to a lower classification in their classification series, shall be placed on appropriate layoff lists. Those employees with the most retention points within each category of order of layoff, as established in section 124.323 of the Revised Code, shall be placed at the top of the layoff list to be followed b...

...An employee holding a position in the classified service may be temporarily transferred from the employee's original position to a similar position for a period not to exceed thirty days, or for a longer period not to exceed ninety days if agreed to by the employee and employer. No employee shall be temporarily transferred more than once during any six-month period without the approval of the director of administr...

...(A) The tenure of every officer or employee in the classified service of the state and the counties, civil service townships, cities, city health districts, general health districts, and city school districts of the state, holding a position under this chapter, shall be during good behavior and efficient service. No officer or employee shall be reduced in pay or position, fined, suspended, or removed, or have the off...

...(A) If an employee in the classified or unclassified civil service becomes aware in the course of employment of a violation of state or federal statutes, rules, or regulations or the misuse of public resources, and the employee's supervisor or appointing authority has authority to correct the violation or misuse, the employee may file a written report identifying the violation or misuse with the supervisor or ...

...il service township service, other than superintendents and management employees, as defined in section 5126.20 of the Revised Code, of county boards of developmental disabilities; (B) Employees of any state college or university; (C) Any employee of any board of education for whom sick leave is not provided by section 3319.141 of the Revised Code, provided that the employee is not a substitute, adult education i...

...(A)(1)(a) An employee in the service of the state may be eligible to receive salary continuation not to exceed four hundred eighty hours at the employee's total rate of pay for absence as a result of injury incurred during the performance of, or arising out of, state employment. When an eligible employee's absence as a result of such an injury extends beyond four hundred eighty hours, the employee immediately b...

...(A) As used in this section and sections 124.383, 124.386, 124.387, and 124.388 of the Revised Code: (1) "Pay period" means the fourteen-day period of time during which the payroll is accumulated, as determined by the director of administrative services. (2) "Active pay status" means the conditions under which an employee is eligible to receive pay, and includes, but is not limited to, vacation leave, sick leav...

...(A) An employee is eligible for disability leave benefits under this section if the employee has completed one year of continuous state service immediately prior to the date of the disability and if any of the following applies: (1) The employee is a full-time permanent employee and is eligible for sick leave credit pursuant to division (B) of section 124.382 of the Revised Code. (2) The employee is a part-time pe...

...(A) Each full-time permanent employee paid in accordance with section 124.152 of the Revised Code and those full-time permanent employees listed in divisions (B)(2) and (4) of section 124.14 of the Revised Code shall be credited with thirty-two hours of personal leave each year. Each part-time permanent employee paid in accordance with section 124.152 of the Revised Code and those part-time permanent employees listed...

...As used in this section, "retirement" means disability or service retirement under any state or municipal retirement system in this state. (A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(3) of this section, an employee of a state college or university may elect, at the time of retirement from active service and with ten or more years of service with the state or any of its political subdivisions, to be paid in cash for on...