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...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...

...(A) Every corporation shall have and maintain an agent, sometimes referred to as the "statutory agent," upon whom any process, notice, or demand required or permitted by statute to be served upon a corporation may be served. The agent shall be one of the following: (1) A natural person who is a resident of this state; (2) A domestic or foreign corporation, nonprofit corporation, limited liability company, partne...

...wing that the corporation has paid all taxes imposed under the laws of this state that are or will be due from the corporation on the date of the dissolution, or that such payment has been adequately guaranteed; (3) In lieu of the receipt, certificate, or other evidence described in division (G)(1) or (2) of this section, an affidavit of one or more of the persons executing the certificate of dissolution or o...

...(A) Every nonprofit corporation, incorporated under the general corporation laws of this state, or previous laws, or under special provisions of the Revised Code, or created before September 1, 1851, which corporation has expressedly or impliedly elected to be governed by the laws passed since that date, and whose articles or other documents are filed with the secretary of state, shall file with the secretary of stat...

...No foreign corporation shall transact in this state any business that could not be lawfully transacted by a domestic corporation. Whenever the secretary of state finds that a foreign corporation licensed to transact business in this state is transacting in this state a business that a domestic corporation could not lawfully transact, is transacting business in this state in a corporate name that is not readily distin...

...The secretary of state shall be the agent of any foreign corporation licensed to do business in this state, upon whom process against it from any court in this state or from any public authorities may be served within this state if the designated agent cannot be found, if the corporation has failed to designate another agent when required to do so under sections 1703.01 to 1703.31 of the Revised Code, or if the licen...

...(A) A limited liability company is a separate legal entity. A limited liability company's status for tax purposes shall not affect its status as a separate legal entity formed under this chapter. (B) A limited liability company has perpetual duration.

...(A) Each limited liability company and foreign limited liability company that has an effective registration as a foreign limited liability company under section 1706.511 of the Revised Code shall maintain continuously in this state an agent for service of process on the company. The agent shall be one of the following: (1) A natural person who is a resident of this state; (2) A domestic or foreign corporation, no...

...(A) "Exempt," as used in this section, means exempt from sections 1707.08 to 1707.11 and 1707.39 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Except as provided in division (B)(2) of this section, the following securities are exempt, if the issuer or guarantor has the power of taxation or assessment for the purpose of paying the obligation represented by the security, or is in specific terms empowered by the laws of the state of i...

...(A) For the purpose of preventing manipulative practices by a person who makes a proposal, or publicly discloses the intention or possibility of making a proposal, to acquire control of a corporation formed under the laws of this state, any profit realized, directly or indirectly, from the disposition of any equity securities of a corporation by a person who, within eighteen months before disposition directly or indi...

...In a county in which there is a county agricultural society indebted fifteen thousand dollars or more, and such society has purchased a fairground or title to such fairground is vested in fee in the county, the board of county commissioners, upon the presentation of a petition signed by not less than five hundred resident electors of the county praying for the submission to the electors of the county of the que...

... township shall levy, for such purpose, taxes amounting to not more in any one year than one fourth of one per cent.

...When the title to real estate is vested in trustees for the use of churches or congregations of churches, and owing to its peculiar situation or to the nature of the trust or conditions upon which it is held, such real estate for twenty years has not been claimed by or appropriated to the use of churches or congregations as originally contemplated and such trustees are in doubt as to what disposition to make of it, o...

...(A) Subject to the intent of a donor expressed in a gift instrument, an institution, in managing and investing an institutional fund, shall consider the charitable purposes of the institution and the purposes of the institutional fund. (B) In addition to complying with any other duty of loyalty imposed by law, each person responsible for managing and investing an institutional fund shall manage and invest the ...

...the sum of fifty dollars. The lien for taxes against such burial grounds may be enforced in the same manner prescribed for abandoned lands under sections 323.65 to 323.79 of the Revised Code except that the burial ground may be transferred only to a municipal corporation, county, or township under division (D) of section 323.74 of the Revised Code. No burial ground that is otherwise exempt from sale or execution und...

...(A) So long as a community urban redevelopment corporation is obligated under a financial agreement with a municipal corporation made pursuant to section 1728.07 of the Revised Code, it shall engage in no business other than the acquisition, ownership, construction, operation, and management of such project or projects. (B) The corporation shall not voluntarily transfer the project undertaken by it under Chapter 172...

...l make payments in lieu of real estate taxes not less than the amount as provided by section 1728.11 of the Revised Code; or if the municipal corporation is an impacted city, not less than the amount as provided by section 1728.111 of the Revised Code; (C) That the corporation, its successors and assigns, shall use, develop, and redevelop the real property of the project in accordance with, and for the period ...

...(A) The financial agreement provided for in section 1728.07 of the Revised Code may provide that the municipal corporation will consent to a sale of the project by the community urban redevelopment corporation to another such corporation and that, upon assumption by the transferee corporation of the transferor's obligations under the financial agreement the tax exemption of the improvement as provided by section 1728...

...The premiums or other charges received by an insurer from or on behalf of an enrolled small employer and eligible employees or retirees under a health benefit plan provided by the insurer under a qualified alliance program shall not be considered "premiums received" or "premium rate payments received" for purposes of division (A) of section 5725.18 and division (A) of section 5729.03 of the Revised Code, and are exem...

...(A) The Ohio housing finance agency shall do all of the following related to carrying out its programs: (1) Upon the governor's designation, serve as the housing credit agency for the state and perform all responsibilities of a housing credit agency pursuant to Section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code and similar applicable laws; (2) Require that housing that benefits from the agency's assistance be available ...

...(A) All bonds issued under this chapter are lawful investments of banks, societies for savings, savings and loan associations, deposit guarantee associations, trust companies, trustees, fiduciaries, insurance companies, including domestic for life and domestic not for life, trustees or other officers having charge of sinking and bond retirement or other special funds of political subdivisions and taxing districts of ...

...(A) This chapter, being necessary for the welfare of the state and its inhabitants, shall be liberally construed to effect its purposes and the purposes of Section 14, of Article VIII and Section 16, Article VIII, Ohio Constitution. (B) The following are not public records subject to section 149.43 of the Revised Code: (1) Financial statements and data submitted for any purpose to the Ohio housing finance agenc...

...nt in the payment of individual income taxes is ineligible to receive a grant or other assistance under the program. (D) A graduate who is eligible for the program shall receive down payment assistance and a reduction in the interest rate of the mortgage offered by the Ohio housing finance agency. (E) The down payment assistance shall be provided to the recipient when the recipient obtains a qualifying mortga...

...(A) No municipal corporation, county, or township shall issue general obligations pursuant to section 133.51 of the Revised Code or expend moneys raised by taxation to provide, or assist in providing, housing pursuant to Section 16 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, unless the municipal corporation, county, or township has done all of the following: (1) Established or designated a housing advisory board pursuant...

...(A) Each limited partnership shall keep at its principal office, which need not be in this state, all of the following: (1) A current list of the full name and last known business or residence address of each partner, separately listing and identifying the general partners, in alphabetical order, and the limited partners, in alphabetical order; (2) A copy of the certificate of limited partnership and all certificat...