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...Effective July 1, 1971, all public post high school technical education programs shall be operated by technical colleges, community colleges, university branches, state colleges, state-affiliated universities and state universities. Subject to rules and regulations adopted by the chancellor of higher education, the board of trustees or directors of one of the above such institutions shall adopt a plan of transition g...

...The board of trustees of the Ohio state university shall have general supervision of all lands, buildings, and other property belonging to the university, and the control of all expenses therefor, but shall not contract a debt not previously authorized by the general assembly.

...(A) The board of trustees of the Ohio state university shall govern the Ohio agricultural research and development center. (B) There is hereby created the "Ohio agricultural research and development center fund," which shall be under the custody and control of the board of trustees of the university and shall consist of all moneys appropriated, given, granted, or bequeathed to the center or to the university for the...

...Upon payment as provided in section 3337.02 of the Revised Code, the owner shall be entitled to receive a deed of conveyance for such land by him owned, to be signed by the president of such corporation, countersigned by its secretary, and sealed with the corporate seal of the Ohio university, conveying the premises in fee simple to him, or such owner at his option, may demand and receive a certificate as provided in...

...The board of trustees of Cleveland state university shall employ, fix the compensation of, and remove the president and such number of professors, teachers, and other employees as may be deemed necessary. The board shall do all things necessary for the creation, proper maintenance, and successful and continuous operation of the university. The board may accept donations of lands and moneys for the purposes of such un...

...The board of trustees of Cleveland state university may receive and hold in trust, for the use and benefit of the university, any grant or devise of land, and any donation or bequest of money or other personal property, to be applied to the general or special use of the university, unless otherwise directed in the donation or bequest. The board of trustees of Cleveland state university may make and enter into all con...

...As used in this section: (A) "Board of trustees" means the board of trustees of a state university, university housing commission, state medical university, community college district, university branch district, technical college district, or state community college. (B) "Political subdivision" means a municipal corporation, county, or township. (C) "Institution" means all real property owned or leased by a...

...The powers and duties prescribed under this section for the board of trustees of a state college or university are subject to section 3345.161 of the Revised Code. The board of trustees of a state college or university may receive, and hold in trust, for the use and benefit of the college or university any grant or devise of land, and donation or bequest of money or other personal property, to be applied to the gen...

...The board of trustees of a state university, by majority vote, may make, execute, and deliver contracts or leases to mine minerals upon lands under the supervision of the board, to any person or public entity that complies with the terms prescribed by the board. Such contracts or leases shall not operate as a conveyance of the fee to any part of the realty. The board may use the proceeds derived from its actio...

...No student, faculty or staff member, or employee under dismissal or suspension from a college or university pursuant to section 3345.22 or 3345.23 of the Revised Code, shall enter or remain upon the land or premises of the college or university from which he was suspended or dismissed, without the express permission of the board of trustees or the president.

...For the purpose of obtaining funds for the acquisition of lands or the erection, remodeling, and equipping of buildings as defined in section 3347.03 of the Revised Code, or for any of such purposes, and for the purpose of paying legal, architectural, engineering, administrative, and clerical expenses incident thereto, each housing commission may provide by resolution for the issuance of bonds, notes, or other writte...

...(A) Real property or buildings a university housing commission identifies as a property site for development or redevelopment under section 3347.09 of the Revised Code may be situated within or outside of the political subdivision in which the administrative offices of the university identified with the commission are principally located. (B) If located entirely outside of the political subdivision, but not less tha...

...For the purpose of levying any tax which may be found necessary to meet fiscal obligations under any agreement authorized by section 3349.23 or section 3349.241 of the Revised Code, that portion of said county lying outside of the corporate limits of such municipality in which the university is situated, when the county enters into such an agreement, or any township, municipal corporation, or school district which en...

...The board of trustees of the northeast Ohio medical university shall employ, fix the compensation of, and remove, the president and such number of professors, teachers, officers, and other employees as are considered necessary. The board shall do all things necessary for the creation, proper maintenance, and successful and continuous operation of the university and may adopt and from time to time amend bylaws, ...

...The board of trustees of the northeast Ohio medical university may receive and hold in trust, for the use and benefit of the university, any grant or devise of land, and any donation or bequest of money or other personal property, to be applied to the general or special use of the university, unless otherwise directed in the donation or bequest. The board may make and enter into all contracts and agreements nec...

...The board of trustees of Wright state university shall employ, fix the compensation of, and remove, the president and such number of professors, teachers, and other employees as may be deemed necessary. The board shall do all things necessary for the creation, proper maintenance, and successful and continuous operation of the university. The board may accept donations of lands and moneys for the purposes of such univ...

...The board of trustees of Wright state university may receive and hold in trust, for the use and benefit of the university, any grant or devise of land, and any donation or bequest of money or other personal property, to be applied to the general or special use of the university, unless otherwise directed in the donation or bequest. The board of trustees of Wright state university may make and enter into all contracts...

...The boards of trustees of Miami university and the Ohio state university, acting in accordance with such agreements as may be decided upon, shall employ, fix the compensation of, and remove the professors, teachers, administrative personnel, and such other employees of the Wright state campus as necessary. The boards shall do all things necessary for the creation, proper maintenance, and successful operation of the i...

...The Wright state campus shall cease to exist when the board of trustees of Wright state university commences the exercise of its powers. Thereupon, the control of all lands, buildings, property, and equipment of the institution held by the boards of trustees of Miami university and the Ohio state university for the institution or in trust for the institution, whether for the general or special use of the institution...

...The ownership of a community college created and established pursuant to provisions of sections 3354.02 and 3354.04 of the Revised Code, including all right, title, and interest in and to all property, both real and personal, pertaining thereto, shall be vested in the board of trustees of the community college district in which such college is situated, except as may be provided in a contract entered into under...

...The managing authority of the university branch district shall adopt its own rules governing proceedings, designate the permanent place of business of the district, and keep a record of all its proceedings. Such record shall be open for public inspection during regular business hours at the permanent place of business of the district. The managing authority may: (A) Enter into a contract for a period of not less t...

...The ownership of the university branch campus, created and established pursuant to sections 3355.01 to 3355.14 of the Revised Code, including all right, title, and interest in and to all property, both real and personal, pertaining thereto, shall be vested in the managing authority of the university branch district. The board may acquire by appropriation any land, rights, rights of way, franchises, easements, o...

...No provisions in sections 3355.01 to 3355.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code shall limit, restrict, regulate, or alter the powers of the respective state and municipal universities to administer university branches outside of lands and facilities provided by university branch districts or to limit, restrict, or regulate the authority of any unit of local government to establish community colleges or technical college...

...The board of trustees of Youngstown state university shall employ, fix the compensation of, and remove the president and such number of professors, teachers, and other employees as may be deemed necessary. The board shall do all things necessary for the creation, proper maintenance, and successful continuous operation of the university. The board may accept donations of lands and moneys for the purpose of such univer...

...The board of trustees of Youngstown state university may receive and hold in trust, for the use and benefit of the university, any grant or devise of land, and any donation or bequest of money or other personal property, to be applied to the general or special use of the university, unless otherwise directed in the donation or bequest. The board of trustees of Youngstown state university may make and enter into all c...

...ion; (7) A person licensed as a motor vehicle auction owner under Chapter 4517. of the Revised Code who exclusively sells motor vehicles to a person licensed under Chapter 4517. of the Revised Code and who uses an auctioneer who is licensed under this chapter to conduct the auction; (8) A bid calling contest that is approved by the commission and that is conducted for the purposes of the advancement or promotion ...

...any law which in any way relates to the theft of motor vehicles.

...the following: (1) The sale of a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer that is required to be registered under Chapter 4503. of the Revised Code or for which a certificate of title is required under Chapter 4505. of the Revised Code; (2) The sale of food products, agricultural products, or forestry products; (3) Any business conducted at an industry or association trade show; (4) The sale of handmade or handcraf...

...lroad car; (d) A motor truck or other vehicle; (e) A tank or storage facility; (f) A station house, platform, or depot; (g) A vessel or wharf; (h) An aircraft, airport terminal, airport, aircraft terminal, or air navigation facility; (i) An intermodal container, intermodal chassis, trailer, container freight station, warehouse, freight distribution facility, or freight consolidation facility. (2) Any pe...

...3.11 of the Revised Code. (FF) "Motor vehicle" has the same meaning as in section 4501.01 of the Revised Code. (GG) "Dangerous drug" has the same meaning as in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code. (HH) "Drug abuse offense" has the same meaning as in section 2925.01 of the Revised Code. (II)(1) "Computer hacking" means any of the following: (a) Gaining access or attempting to gain access to all or part of a ...

...e. If the property involved is a motor vehicle, as defined in section 4501.01 of the Revised Code, if the property involved is a dangerous drug, as defined in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code, if the value of the property involved is seven thousand five hundred dollars or more and is less than one hundred fifty thousand dollars, or if the property involved is a firearm or dangerous ordnance, as defined in s...

...felony offense of unauthorized use of a vehicle, illegally transmitting multiple commercial electronic mail messages or unauthorized access of a computer in violation of section 2923.421 of the Revised Code, or the commission of a violation of any provision of Chapter 3734. of the Revised Code, other than section 3734.18 of the Revised Code, that relates to hazardous wastes, shall do either of the following: (1) W...

...l parts. (N) "Animal facility" means a vehicle, building, structure, nature preserve, or other premises in which an animal is lawfully kept, handled, housed, exhibited, bred, or offered for sale, including, but not limited to, a zoo, rodeo, circus, amusement park, hunting preserve, or premises in which a horse or dog event is held. (O) "Animal or ecological terrorism" means the commission of any felony that involve...

...4) A person who has been issued a motor vehicle salvage dealer's license under Chapter 4738. of the Revised Code; (25) A person who has been licensed to act as a steam engineer under Chapter 4739. of the Revised Code; (26) A person who has been issued a license or temporary permit to practice veterinary medicine or any of its branches, or who is registered as a graduate animal technician under Chapter 4741. of ...

... securities; (13) Alteration of motor vehicle identification numbers; (14) Unlawful manufacture, purchase, use, or transfer of firearms; (15) Unlawful possession or use of destructive devices or explosives; (16) A violation of section 2925.03, 2925.04, 2925.05, 2925.06, 2925.11, 2925.32, or 2925.37 or Chapter 3719. of the Revised Code, unless the violation is for possession of less than one hundred grams of m...

...tenance, or use of automobiles or motor vehicles, airplanes, seaplanes, dirigibles, or other aircraft, including burglary and theft, vandalism, malicious mischief, or the wrongful conversion, disposal, or concealment thereof and the accessories thereto, whether held under conditional sale contract or subject to chattel mortgage, and to effect reinsurance of any risk taken, but not including loss or damage by risk of ...

...ever violates this section is guilty of theft of mail, a felony of the fifth degree except as provided in division (B)(2) of section 2913.02 of the Revised Code with respect to property with a value of seven thousand five hundred dollars or more and division (B)(3) of section 2913.02 of the Revised Code with respect to property with a value of one thousand dollars or more. (D) A prosecution for a violation of this ...

...ngly use or operate an aircraft, motor vehicle, motorcycle, motorboat, or other motor-propelled vehicle without the consent of the owner or person authorized to give consent. (B) No person shall knowingly use or operate an aircraft, motor vehicle, motorboat, or other motor-propelled vehicle without the consent of the owner or person authorized to give consent, and either remove it from this state or keep pos...

...(A) No person shall knowingly use or operate the property of another without the consent of the owner or person authorized to give consent. (B) No person, in any manner and by any means, including, but not limited to, computer hacking, shall knowingly gain access to, attempt to gain access to, or cause access to be gained to any computer, computer system, computer network, cable service, cable system, telecommunicat...

...(A) No person shall knowingly possess any device, including any instrument, apparatus, computer chip, equipment, decoder, descrambler, converter, software, or other device specially adapted, modified, or remanufactured for gaining access to cable television service, without securing authorization from or paying the required compensation to the owner or operator of the system that provides the cable television service...

...(A) No person, having devised a scheme to defraud, shall knowingly disseminate, transmit, or cause to be disseminated or transmitted by means of a wire, radio, satellite, telecommunication, telecommunications device, telecommunications service, or voice over internet protocol service any writing, data, sign, signal, picture, sound, or image with purpose to execute or otherwise further the scheme to defraud. (B) No...

...(A) No person shall knowingly manufacture, possess, deliver, offer to deliver, or advertise a counterfeit telecommunications device with purpose to use it criminally. (B) No person shall knowingly manufacture, possess, deliver, offer to deliver, or advertise a counterfeit telecommunications device with purpose to use that device or to allow that device to be used, or knowing or having reason to know that another per...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Audiovisual recording function" means the capability of a device to record or transmit a motion picture or any part of a motion picture by means of any technology existing on, or developed after, the effective date of this section. (2) "Facility" means a movie theater. (B) No person, without the written consent of the owner or lessee of the facility and of the licensor of the moti...

...icable taxes and shipping costs. (5) "Theft" means conduct that would constitute a violation of section 2913.02 of the Revised Code. (B) No person shall knowingly commit theft of retail property with a retail value of seven thousand five hundred dollars or more from a retail establishment, manufacturer, distributor, or cargo transportation unit for either of the following purposes: (1) To sell, deliver, or tran...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Check" includes any form of debit from a demand deposit account, including, but not limited to any of the following: (a) A check, bill of exchange, draft, order of withdrawal, or similar negotiable or non-negotiable instrument; (b) An electronic check, electronic transaction, debit card transaction, check card transaction, substitute check, web check, or any form of automated ...

...(A) No person shall do any of the following: (1) Practice deception for the purpose of procuring the issuance of a credit card, when a credit card is issued in actual reliance thereon; (2) Knowingly buy or sell a credit card from or to a person other than the issuer; (3) As an officer, employee, or appointee of a political subdivision or as a public servant as defined under section 2921.01 of the Revised Code, kno...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Access device" means any debit or credit card representing a monetary security or retail amount by any financial institution, including a bank, savings bank, savings and loan association, credit union, or business entity. "Access device" includes a gift card as defined in section 1349.61 of the Revised Code. (2) "Obligation or other security" means an instrument recognized as cur...

...(A) No person, with purpose to defraud, or knowing that the person is facilitating a fraud, shall do any of the following: (1) Forge any writing of another without the other person's authority; (2) Forge any writing so that it purports to be genuine when it actually is spurious, or to be the act of another who did not authorize that act, or to have been executed at a time or place or with terms different from what ...

...(A) No person, with purpose to defraud, or knowing that the person is facilitating a fraud, shall do any of the following: (1) Make or alter any object so that it appears to have value because of antiquity, rarity, curiosity, source, or authorship, which it does not in fact possess; (2) Practice deception in making, retouching, editing, or reproducing any photograph, movie film, video tape, phonograph recor...

...(A) No person shall do any of the following: (1) Insert or deposit a slug in a coin machine, with purpose to defraud; (2) Make, possess, or dispose of a slug, with purpose of enabling another to defraud by inserting or depositing it in a coin machine. (B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of making or using slugs, a misdemeanor of the second degree.

...If a person is arrested for operating a vehicle, streetcar, or trackless trolley in violation of division (A) or (B) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code or a municipal OVI ordinance or for being in physical control of a vehicle, streetcar, or trackless trolley in violation of section 4511.194 of the Revised Code or a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance and if the person's driver's or commercial driver's ...

...(A)(1) If a court grants limited driving privilege to a person who is described in division (B) of this section and who is alleged to have committed a violation of division (A) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code or of a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance, the court as a condition of granting limited driving privileges may prohibit the person from consuming any beer or intoxicating liquor and may re...

...(A) No person shall operate a vehicle, trackless trolley, or streetcar on any street or highway in willful or wanton disregard of the safety of persons or property. (B) Except as otherwise provided in this division, whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. If, within one year of the offense, the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to one predicate motor vehicle or traff...

...(A) No person shall operate a vehicle, trackless trolley, or streetcar on any public or private property other than streets or highways, in willful or wanton disregard of the safety of persons or property. This section does not apply to the competitive operation of vehicles on public or private property when the owner of such property knowingly permits such operation thereon. (B) Except as otherwise provided in thi...

...(A) No person shall operate a motor vehicle, trackless trolley, streetcar, agricultural tractor, or agricultural tractor that is towing, pulling, or otherwise drawing a unit of farm machinery on any street, highway, or property open to the public for vehicular traffic without being in reasonable control of the vehicle, trolley, streetcar, agricultural tractor, or unit of farm machinery. (B) Whoever violates ...

...(A) No person shall permit a motor vehicle owned by the person or under the person's control to be driven by another if any of the following apply: (1) The offender knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the other person does not have a valid driver's or commercial driver's license or permit or valid nonresident driving privileges. (2) The offender knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the oth...

...(A) No person shall operate a motor vehicle, trackless trolley, or streetcar on any street, highway, or property open to the public for vehicular traffic while using, holding, or physically supporting with any part of the person's body an electronic wireless communications device. (B) Division (A) of this section does not apply to any of the following: (1) A person using an electronic wireless communications de...

...ry driver's license shall drive a motor vehicle on any street, highway, or property used by the public for purposes of vehicular traffic or parking while using in any manner an electronic wireless communications device. (B) Division (A) of this section does not apply to either of the following: (1) A person using an electronic wireless communications device for emergency purposes, including an emergency contact wi...

...(A) No person shall operate a motor vehicle, trackless trolley, or streetcar at a speed greater or less than is reasonable or proper, having due regard to the traffic, surface, and width of the street or highway and any other conditions, and no person shall drive any motor vehicle, trackless trolley, or streetcar in and upon any street or highway at a greater speed than will permit the person to bring it to a stop wi...

...ate law. (B) No person shall operate a vehicle upon a private road or driveway as provided in division (A) of this section at a speed exceeding any speed limit established and posted pursuant to that division. (C) When a speed limit is established and posted in accordance with division (A) of this section, any law enforcement officer may apprehend a person violating the speed limit of the residential area by utili...

...(A) As used in this section, "local authority" means the legislative authority of a municipal corporation, the board of trustees of a township, or the board of county commissioners of a county. (B) The board of education or the chief administrative officer operating or in charge of any school may submit a written complaint to the director of transportation alleging that a local authority is not complying with sectio...

...(A) The driver of a motor vehicle, upon approaching a stationary public safety vehicle, emergency vehicle, road service vehicle, waste collection vehicle, vehicle used by the public utilities commission to conduct motor vehicle inspections in accordance with sections 4923.04 and 4923.06 of the Revised Code, or a highway maintenance vehicle that is displaying the appropriate visual signals by means of flashing, oscill...

...1) No person shall operate a low-speed vehicle upon any street or highway having an established speed limit greater than thirty-five miles per hour. (2) No person shall operate an under-speed or utility vehicle or a mini-truck upon any street or highway except as follows: (a) Upon a street or highway having an established speed limit not greater than thirty-five miles per hour and only upon such streets or hi...

...he operation of under-speed or utility vehicles or mini-trucks on a public street or highway under its jurisdiction. A local authority that authorizes the operation of under-speed or utility vehicles or mini-trucks shall do all of the following: (1) Limit the operation of those vehicles to streets and highways having an established speed limit not greater than thirty-five miles per hour; (2) Require the vehi...

...ed Code, a person may operate a utility vehicle on any public roads or right-of-way, other than a freeway, when traveling from one farm field to another for agricultural purposes if the vehicle is displaying a triangular slow-moving vehicle emblem as described in section 4513.112 of the Revised Code.

...(A) No person shall stop or operate a vehicle, trackless trolley, or street car at such an unreasonably slow speed as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic, except when stopping or reduced speed is necessary for safe operation or to comply with law. (B) Whenever the director of transportation or local authorities determine on the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that slow...

...(A) No person shall operate a vehicle, trackless trolley, or streetcar over any bridge or other elevated structure constituting a part of a highway at a speed which is greater than the maximum speed that can be maintained with safety to such bridge or structure, when such structure is posted with signs as provided in this section. The department of transportation upon request from any local authority shall, or upon ...

... Revised Code do not apply to emergency vehicles or public safety vehicles when they are responding to emergency calls and are equipped with and displaying at least one flashing, rotating, or oscillating light visible under normal atmospheric conditions from a distance of five hundred feet to the front of the vehicle and when the drivers thereof sound audible signals by bell, siren, or exhaust whistle. This section d...

...pon all roadways of sufficient width, a vehicle or trackless trolley shall be driven upon the right half of the roadway, except as follows: (1) When overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction, or when making a left turn under the rules governing such movements; (2) When an obstruction exists making it necessary to drive to the left of the center of the highway; provided, any person so d...

...ing" means the operation of two or more vehicles from a point side by side at accelerating speeds in a competitive attempt to out-distance each other or the operation of one or more vehicles over a common selected course, from the same point to the same point, wherein timing is made of the participating vehicles involving competitive accelerations or speeds. The operation of two or more vehicles side by side either a...

...In townships in this state composed entirely of islands, the legislative authority of a municipal corporation, the county commissioners of the county wherein such township is located, and the trustees of such township may, by joint consent, cause any road, street, or highway in said township, whether within or without the limits of a municipal corporation, excepting state highways, to be closed to public travel, exce...

...(A) Operators of vehicles and trackless trolleys proceeding in opposite directions shall pass each other to the right, and upon roadways having width for not more than one line of traffic in each direction, each operator shall give to the other one-half of the main traveled portion of the roadway or as nearly one-half as is reasonable possible. (B) Except as otherwise provided in this division, whoever violates this...

...es govern the overtaking and passing of vehicles or trackless trolleys proceeding in the same direction: (1) The operator of a vehicle or trackless trolley overtaking another vehicle or trackless trolley proceeding in the same direction shall, except as provided in division (A)(3) of this section, signal to the vehicle or trackless trolley to be overtaken, shall pass to the left thereof at a safe distance, and shall...

...(A) The driver of a vehicle or trackless trolley may overtake and pass upon the right of another vehicle or trackless trolley only under the following conditions: (1) When the vehicle or trackless trolley overtaken is making or about to make a left turn; (2) Upon a roadway with unobstructed pavement of sufficient width for two or more lines of vehicles moving lawfully in the direction being traveled by the overtaki...

...(A) No vehicle or trackless trolley shall be driven to the left of the center of the roadway in overtaking and passing traffic proceeding in the same direction, unless such left side is clearly visible and is free of oncoming traffic for a sufficient distance ahead to permit such overtaking and passing to be completely made, without interfering with the safe operation of any traffic approaching from the opposite dire...