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...Duty of care; contractual limitation of warehouse's liability [UCC 7-204] (A) A warehouse is liable for damages for loss of or injury to the goods caused by its failure to exercise care with regard to the goods that a reasonably careful person would exercise under similar circumstances. Unless otherwise agreed, the warehouse is not liable for damages that could not have been avoided by the exercise of that ca...

...Title under warehouse receipt defeated in certain cases [UCC 7-205] A buyer in ordinary course of business of fungible goods sold and delivered by a warehouse that is also in the business of buying and selling such goods takes the goods free of any claim under a warehouse receipt even if the receipt is negotiable and has been duly negotiated.

...Lien of warehouse [UCC 7-209] (A) A warehouse has a lien against the bailor on the goods covered by a warehouse receipt or storage agreement or on the proceeds thereof in its possession for charges for storage or transportation, including demurrage and terminal charges, insurance, labor, or other charges, present or future, in relation to the goods, and for expenses necessary for preservation of the goods or ...

...Duty of care; contractual limitation of carrier's liability [UCC 7-309] (A) A carrier that issues a bill of lading, whether negotiable or nonnegotiable, shall exercise the degree of care in relation to the goods which a reasonably careful person would exercise under similar circumstances. This division does not affect any statute, regulation, or rule of law that imposes liability upon a common carrier for dam...

...Rights acquired by due negotiation [UCC 7-502] (A) Subject to sections 1307.205 and 1307.503 of the Revised Code, a holder to which a negotiable document of title has been duly negotiated acquires thereby: (1) title to the document; (2) title to the goods; (3) all rights accruing under the law of agency or estoppel, including rights to goods delivered to the bailee after the document was issued; and (4) th...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (B) and (C) of this section, a purchaser of a certificated or uncertificated security acquires all rights in the security that the transferor had or had power to transfer. (B) A purchaser of a limited interest acquires rights only to the extent of the interest purchased. (C) A purchaser of a certificated security who as a previous holder had notice of an adverse claim...

...(A) A person who originates an entitlement order to a securities intermediary warrants to the securities intermediary that: (1) The entitlement order is made by an appropriate person, or if the entitlement order is by an agent, the agent has actual authority to act on behalf of the appropriate person; and (2) There is no adverse claim to the security entitlement. (B) A person who delivers a security certificate to...

...(A) An indorsement may be in blank or special. An indorsement in blank includes an indorsement to bearer. A special indorsement specifies to whom a security is to be transferred or who has power to transfer it. A holder may convert a blank indorsement to a special indorsement. (B) An indorsement purporting to be only of part of a security certificate representing units intended by the issuer to be separately transfe...

...(A) A person who guarantees a signature of an indorser of a security certificate warrants that at the time of signing: (1) The signature was genuine; (2) The signer was an appropriate person to indorse, or if the signature is by an agent, the agent had actual authority to act on behalf of the appropriate person; and (3) The signer had legal capacity to sign. (B) A person who guarantees a signature of the originat...

...(A) The interest of a debtor in a certificated security may be reached by a creditor only by actual seizure of the security certificate by the officer making the attachment or levy, except as otherwise provided in division (D) of this section. However, a certificated security for which the certificate has been surrendered to the issuer may be reached by a creditor by legal process upon the issuer. (B) The interest o...

...(A) To the extent necessary for a securities intermediary to satisfy all security entitlements with respect to a particular financial asset, all interests in that financial asset held by the securities intermediary are held by the securities intermediary for the entitlement holders, are not property of the securities intermediary, and are not subject to claims of creditors of the securities intermediary, except as ot...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Purchase-money collateral" means goods or software that secures a purchase-money obligation incurred with respect to that collateral; and (2) "Purchase-money obligation" means an obligation of an obligor incurred as all or part of the price of the collateral or for value given to enable the debtor to acquire rights in or the use of the collateral if the value is in fact so used. (...

...(A) Except as provided in divisions (C), (D), and (E) of this section, any description of personal or real property is sufficient whether or not it is specific if it reasonably identifies what is described. (B) Except as otherwise provided in division (D) of this section, a description of collateral reasonably identifies the collateral if it identifies the collateral by: (1) Specific listing; (2) Category; (3) E...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, a security agreement may create or provide for a security interest in after-acquired collateral. (B) A security interest does not attach under a term constituting an after-acquired property clause to: (1) Consumer goods other than accessions when given as additional security unless the debtor acquires rights in them within ten days after the secured party ...

...(A) A security interest may be created in an accession and continues in collateral that becomes an accession. (B) If a security interest is perfected when the collateral becomes an accession, the security interest remains perfected in the collateral. (C) Except as otherwise provided in division (D) of this section, the other provisions of sections 1309.301 to 1309.342 of the Revised Code determine the priority of a...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, a bank with which a deposit account is maintained may exercise any right of recoupment or set-off against a secured party that holds a security interest in the deposit account. (B) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, the application of this chapter to a security interest in a deposit account does not affect a right of recoupm...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, a term in a lease agreement is not effective to the extent that it: (1) Prohibits, restricts, or requires the consent of a party to the lease to the assignment or transfer of, or the creation, attachment, perfection, or enforcement of a security interest in, an interest of a party under the lease contract or in the lessor's residual interest in the go...

...(A) A term in a letter of credit or a rule of law, statute, regulation, custom, or practice applicable to the letter of credit that prohibits, restricts, or requires the consent of an applicant, issuer, or nominated person to a beneficiary's assignment of or creation of a security interest in a letter-of-credit right is not effective to the extent that the term or rule or law, statute, regulation, custom, or practice...

...(A) A person may file in the filing office an information statement with respect to a record indexed there under the person's name if the person believes that the record is inaccurate or was wrongfully filed. (B) An information statement under division (A) of this section must: (1) Identify the record to which it relates by: (a) The file number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the record ...

...(A) As used in this section, "notification date" means the earlier of the date on which: (1) A secured party sends to the debtor and any secondary obligor an authenticated notification of disposition. or (2) The debtor and any secondary obligor waive the right to notification. (B) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, a secured party who disposes of collateral under section 1309.610 of the Revised Co...

...(A) A secured party who desires to accept collateral in full or partial satisfaction of the obligation it secures shall send its proposal to: (1) Any person from whom the secured party has received, before the debtor consented to the acceptance, an authenticated notification of a claim of an interest in the collateral; (2) Any other secured party or lienholder who, ten days before the debtor consented to the accept...

...(A) The benefit of a supplier's promises to the lessor under a supply contract and of all express or implied warranties, including those of any third party provided in connection with or as part of the supply contract, extends to the lessee to the extent of the lessee's leasehold interest under a finance lease related to the supply contract but is subject to the terms of the warranty and of the supply contract and al...

...(A) Words or conduct relevant to the creation of an express warranty and words or conduct tending to negate or limit a warranty shall be construed wherever reasonable as consistent with each other, but, subject to the provisions of section 1310.09 of the Revised Code on parol or extrinsic evidence, negation or limitation is inoperative to the extent that the construction is unreasonable. (B) Subject to division (C) ...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in section 1310.34 of the Revised Code, a creditor of a lessee takes subject to the lease contract. (B) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section and in sections 1310.34 and 1310.36 of the Revised Code, a creditor of a lessor takes subject to the lease contract unless the creditor holds a lien that attached to the goods before the lease contract became enforceab...

...(A) A creditor of a lessor in possession of goods subject to a lease contract may treat the lease contract as void if as against the creditor retention of possession by the lessor is fraudulent under any section of the Revised Code, any statute of another jurisdiction, or any rule of law, but retention of possession in good faith and current course of trade by the lessor for a commercially reasonable time after the l...

...pose of aiding in the administration of taxes levied under Chapter 5731. of the Revised Code; and the provisions of Chapter 5731. of the Revised Code shall be deemed a law which the tax commissioner is required to administer for the purposes of sections 5703.17 to 5703.37, inclusive, 5703.39, and 5703.41 of the Revised Code. The tax commissioner shall in the administration of the taxes levied under Chapter 5731. of t...

...The annual corporation report shall include statements of the following facts as of the date of the beginning of the corporation's annual accounting period that includes the first day of January of the tax year: (A) The name of the corporation; (B) The name of the state or country under the laws of which it is incorporated; (C) The location of its principal office and, in the case of a foreign corporation, the loc...

...If a corporation entitled to a refund under section 5733.11 or 5733.12 of the Revised Code is indebted to this state for any tax, workers' compensation premium due under section 4123.35 of the Revised Code, unemployment compensation contribution due under section 4141.25 of the Revised Code, unemployment compensation payment in lieu of contribution under section 4141.241 of the Revised Code, certified claim under sec...

...(A) Any term used in this section has the same meaning as in section 122.85 of the Revised Code. (B) There is allowed a credit against the tax imposed by section 5733.06 of the Revised Code for any corporation that is the certificate owner of a tax credit certificate issued under section 122.85 of the Revised Code. The credit shall be claimed for the taxable year in which the certificate is issued by the dire...

...(A) Each person who would qualify for a motor fuel dealer's license under any division in divisions (I)(1)(a) through (d) of section 5735.01 of the Revised Code if that person's business activity were conducted in this state, who makes a sale for export to this state to a person who is not a licensed motor fuel dealer, and who wishes to collect the tax imposed by this chapter on behalf of any person who is not a lice...

...(A) No person shall act in the capacity of a terminal operator within this state unless the person holds an unrevoked license issued by the tax commissioner to engage as a terminal operator. A person desiring to be a terminal operator shall file with the commissioner an application sworn to under oath. The application shall include the following: (1) The name under which the terminal operator will transact business ...

...discovers any motor fuel subject to the taxes levied under Chapter 5735. of the Revised Code and upon which the taxes have not been paid, the commissioner may seize and take possession of the motor fuel. The motor fuel shall be forfeited to the state, and the commissioner, within a reasonable time thereafter, may sell the forfeited motor fuel. The commissioner shall collect the taxes due on the forfeited motor fuel ...

...(A) If a tax, fee, or charge due under this chapter or Chapter 128. or 5741. of the Revised Code is not paid on or before the day the payment is required to be paid, interest shall accrue on the unpaid tax, fee, or charge at the rate per annum prescribed by section 5703.47 of the Revised Code from the day the tax, fee, or charge was required to be paid until the tax, fee, or charge is paid or until the day an assessm...

...s to collect this state's sales and use taxes. (2) Subject to division (B) of this section, the state also shall participate in meetings of the implementing states or the governing board of the agreement to review, amend, or administer the terms of the agreement to simplify and modernize sales and use tax administration that embodies the requirements set forth in section 5740.05 of the Revised Code. For purposes of...

...lection and remittance of sales and use taxes. As the seller's agent, the certified service provider is liable for sales and use taxes due each member state on all sales transactions it processes for the seller, except as provided in this section. A seller that contracts with a certified service provider is not liable to the state for sales or use taxes due on transactions processed by the certified service provider...

...shall not be required if the applicable taxes levied under sections 5743.02, 5743.021, 5743.024, and 5743.026 of the Revised Code have been paid. Application for the consent shall be in the form prescribed by the tax commissioner. Every person transporting such cigarettes shall possess the consent while transporting or possessing the cigarettes within this state and shall produce the consent upon request of any la...

...(A) Any person, other than an employee of the state, who furnishes to the department of taxation, attorney general, or any law enforcement agency original information concerning any violation of Chapter 5743. of the Revised Code, which information results in the collection and recovery of any tax or penalty or leads to the forfeiture of any cigarettes, may be awarded and paid by the treasurer of state, upon the certi...

...(A) Each taxpayer shall make its records, documents, returns, and reports open to inspection by the tax commissioner during normal business hours, and shall preserve those records, documents, returns, and reports for a period of three years after the date the return or report, or return or report to which such a record or document pertains, was required to be filed or actually was filed, whichever is later. The tax c...

...making tax payments under this chapter, taxes equal to the amount of the refundable credit shall be considered to be paid to this state on the first day of the taxable year. The refundable credit shall not be claimed for any taxable years ending with or following the calendar year in which a relocation of employment positions occurs in violation of an agreement entered into under section 122.17 or 122.171 of the Revi...

...The tax commissioner may not require the taxpayer, as a part of the taxpayer's personal income tax return, to report or pay use tax for any purchase made during the tax year on which the taxpayer has paid any sales tax to this state or any other state at the time of the purchase.

...The action of the county budget commission under section 5747.51 of the Revised Code may be appealed to the board of tax appeals in the manner and with the effect provided in section 5705.37 of the Revised Code, in accordance with the following rules: (A) The notice of appeal shall be signed by the authorized fiscal officer and shall set forth in clear and concise language: (1) A statement of the action of the bu...

...(A) There is hereby allowed a nonrefundable credit against a taxpayer's aggregate liability under section 5747.02 of the Revised Code for a taxpayer that is issued a credit certificate under division (D) of section 901.61 of the Revised Code. The credit shall be claimed for the taxable year during which the certificate is issued. The credit shall be claimed in the order required under section 5747.98 of the Revised...

...ised Code; The refundable credit for taxes paid by a qualifying entity granted under section 5747.059 of the Revised Code; The refundable credits for taxes paid by a qualifying pass-through entity granted under division (I) of section 5747.08 of the Revised Code; The refundable credit under section 5747.80 of the Revised Code for losses on loans made to the Ohio venture capital program under sections 150.01 ...

...collection of voted ad valorem property taxes levied for the applicable purpose for which the notes are issued and for the application of the proceeds of the levy to the extent necessary to pay annual debt charges on the notes.

...(A) As used in this section, "person" includes a reporting person. (B) Not later than thirty days after a person's taxable gross receipts for a calendar year first exceed the exclusion amount, each person subject to this chapter shall register with the tax commissioner on the form prescribed by the commissioner. The form shall include the following: (1) The person's name; (2) The person's primary address; ...

...(A) An application for refund to the taxpayer of amounts imposed under this chapter that are overpaid, paid illegally or erroneously, or paid on any illegal or erroneous assessment shall be filed by the reporting person with the tax commissioner, on the form prescribed by the commissioner, within four years after the date of the illegal or erroneous payment, or within any additional period allowed under division (F) ...

...(A) If a taxpayer excludes from its taxable gross receipts amounts described under division (F)(2)(oo) or (pp) of section 5751.01 of the Revised Code for a tax period in which the taxpayer does not qualify for that exclusion for any portion of that tax period, the taxpayer shall remit to the tax commissioner a payment equal to the product of the following: (a) the cost of all property received in this state by a mega...

...aid or a certificate indicating that no taxes are due. If a purchaser fails to withhold purchase money, that person is personally liable up to the purchase money amount, for such amounts that are unpaid during the operation of the business by the former owner. The tax commissioner may adopt rules regarding the issuance of certificates under this section, including the waiver of the need for a certificate if certain ...

...(A) Any term used in this section has the same meaning as in section 122.85 of the Revised Code. (B) There is allowed a refundable credit against the tax imposed by section 5751.02 of the Revised Code for any person that is the certificate owner of a tax credit certificate issued under section 122.85 of the Revised Code. The credit shall be claimed for the tax period in which the certificate is issued by the direc...

...nd shall be collected the same as other taxes, and shall be subject to the same penalties and interest. In case bonds have not been sold to pay the cost of the improvement, the amount assessed against any lot or parcel of land may be paid within thirty days from the confirmation of the revised assessment. The board shall, annually, during the month of August, review all assessments which have been deferred for collec...