Ohio Revised Code Search

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Debt collector" means a licensee, officer, employee, or agent of a licensee, or any person acting as a debt collector for a licensee, or any person while serving or attempting to serve legal process on any other person in connection with the judicial enforcement of any debt resulting from a short-term loan made by a licensee. (2) "Borrower" means a person who has an outstandi...

...As used in sections 1321.62 to 1321.702 of the Revised Code: (A) "Actuarial method" means the method of allocating payments made on a loan between the principal amount and interest whereby a payment is applied first to the accumulated interest and the remainder to the unpaid principal amount. (B) "Advertisement" and "advertising" mean all material printed, published, displayed, distributed, or broadcast, and all ...

...(A) For open-end loans, "billing cycle" means the time interval between periodic billing dates. A billing cycle shall be considered monthly if the closing date of the cycle is the same date each month or does not vary by more than four days from such date. (B) A licensee may make open-end loans pursuant to an agreement between the licensee and the borrower whereby: (1) The licensee may permit the borrower to obta...

...(A)(1) No registrant shall conduct business in this state, unless the registrant has obtained and maintains in effect at all times a corporate surety bond issued by a bonding company or insurance company authorized to do business in this state. The bond shall be in favor of the superintendent of financial institutions and in the penal sum of one-half per cent of the aggregate loan amount of residential mortgage loans...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section, no person shall provide video service in this state on or after September 24, 2007, except pursuant to a video service authorization issued under section 1332.24 of the Revised Code. Nothing in sections 1332.21 to 1332.34 of the Revised Code equates authority to construct and operate telecommunications facilities in a public right-of-way to...

... from the assignment, sale, transfer, exchange, or other disposition of the molds produced by it until the moldbuilder is paid in full all amounts due the moldbuilder for the production of the mold or these proceeds. The lien described in this division attaches when the mold is delivered from the moldbuilder to the customer. (2) The amount of the lien described in division (A)(1) of this section is the amount that a...

...nces include a material and prejudicial change of position prior to acquiring knowledge or reason to know of misappropriation that renders a prohibitive injunction inequitable. (C) In appropriate circumstances, affirmative acts to protect a trade secret may be compelled by court order.

...The court may award reasonable attorney's fees to the prevailing party, if any of the following applies: (A) A claim of misappropriation is made in bad faith. (B) A motion to terminate an injunction is made or resisted in bad faith. (C) Willful and malicious misappropriation exists.

...(A) With respect to any merger, acquisition, purchase, or assignment under division (D) of section 1333.85 of the Revised Code, both of the following apply: (1) The territories for the particular product or brand of alcoholic beverage shall not be assigned to another distributor until the successor manufacturer compensates the terminated or nonrenewed distributor for the diminished value of the distributor's ...

...(A) If the attorney general, by his own inquiries or as a result of complaints has reasonable cause to believe that a person has engaged, is engaging, or threatening to engage in an act or practice that violates sections 1334.01 to 1334.15 of the Revised Code, he may bring any of the following actions: (1) An action to obtain a declaratory judgment that the act or practice violates sections 1334.01 to 1334.15 of the...

...st one of the following applies: (1) A change in the physical condition of the principal has significantly decreased the benefit of that health care to the principal. (2) The health care is not, or is no longer, significantly effective in achieving the purposes for which the principal consented to its use. (G) An attorney in fact under a durable power of attorney f or health care does not have authority to make ...

...hich you previously consented, unless a change in your physical condition has significantly decreased the benefit of that health care to you, or unless the health care is not, or is no longer, significantly effective in achieving the purposes for which you consented to its use ; (6) Provide, refuse, or withdraw informed consent to life-sustaining treatment, or the provision of artificially or technologically admini...

...As used in sections 1337.21 to 1337.64 of the Revised Code: (A) "Agent" means a person granted authority to act for a principal under a power of attorney, whether denominated an agent, attorney in fact, or otherwise. "Agent" includes an original agent, coagent, successor agent, and a person to which an agent's authority is delegated. (B) "Durable," with respect to a power of attorney, means not terminated by...

...A power of attorney created under sections 1337.21 to 1337.64 of the Revised Code is durable unless it expressly provides that it is terminated by the incapacity of the principal.

... Code; (2) Make a gift; (3) Create or change rights of survivorship; (4) Create or change a beneficiary designation; (5) Delegate authority granted under the power of attorney; (6) Waive the principal's right to be a beneficiary of a joint and survivor annuity, including a survivor benefit under a retirement plan; (7) Exercise fiduciary powers that the principal has authority to delegate. (B) Notwithstandin...

...Except as otherwise provided in the power of attorney, by executing a power of attorney that incorporates by reference a subject described in sections 1337.45 to 1337.58 of the Revised Code or that grants to an agent authority to do all acts that a principal could do pursuant to division (C) of section 1337.42 of the Revised Code, a principal authorizes the agent, with respect to that subject, to do all of the ...

... the following: (A) Buy, sell, and exchange stocks and bonds; (B) Establish, continue, modify, or terminate an account with respect to stocks and bonds; (C) Pledge stocks and bonds as security to borrow, pay, renew, or extend the time of payment of a debt of the principal; (D) Receive certificates and other evidences of ownership with respect to stocks and bonds; (E) Exercise voting rights with respect to s...

...h of the following: (A) Buy, sell, exchange, assign, settle, and exercise commodity futures contracts and call or put options on stocks or stock indexes traded on a regulated option exchange; (B) Establish, continue, modify, and terminate option accounts.

...The following optional form may be used by an agent to certify facts concerning a power of attorney. AGENT'S CERTIFICATION AS TO THE VALIDITY OF POWER OF ATTORNEY AND AGENT'S AUTHORITY State of Ohio County of _____________________ I, _________________________________________ (Name of Agent), certify under penalty of perjury that _____________________________ (Name of Principal) granted me authority as an agent or...

...(A) If the attorney general, by the attorney general's own inquiries or as a result of complaints, has reasonable cause to believe that a supplier has engaged or is engaging in an act or practice that violates this chapter, and that the action would be in the public interest, the attorney general may bring any of the following: (1) An action to obtain a declaratory judgment that the act or practice violates section ...

...(A) All prepaid entertainment contracts between the same seller and the same buyer that are in effect at the same time, or the terms of which overlap for any period, shall be considered as one contract for the purpose of sections 1345.43 and 1345.44 of the Revised Code. (B) Prepaid entertainment contracts shall: (1) Be in writing and be signed by the buyer and the seller, and a copy shall be provided to the buyer a...

...In addition to any right otherwise to revoke an offer or to terminate or cancel a sale or contract, the buyer has the right to cancel a prepaid entertainment contract until midnight of the third business day after the date on which the first service under the contract is available, and if the facility or service that is the subject of the contract is not available at the time that the buyer signs the contract, the bu...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Operator" means any business, entity, or person that operates an online web site, service, or product that has users in this state and that allows those users to do all of the following: (a) Interact socially with other users within the confines of the online web site, service, or product; (b) Construct a public or semipublic profile for the purpose of signing into and using...

...A creditor shall not do any of the following: (A) Make a covered loan that includes any of the following: (1) Terms under which a consumer must pay a prepayment penalty for paying all or part of the principal before the date on which the principal is due. For purposes of division (A)(1) of this section, any method of computing a refund of unearned scheduled interest is a prepayment penalty if it is less favorable t...

...(A) A lessor shall disclose all of the following in a clear and conspicuous manner: (1) A brief description of the leased property, sufficient to identify the property to the lessee and lessor and a statement as to whether the property is new, used, or previously leased. If a lease is for multiple items of property, a description of each item may be provided in a separate statement incorporated by reference in the l...