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...(A) No person licensed under this chapter shall advertise, offer for sale, or sell real or personal property by absolute auction unless all of the following apply: (1) One of the following applies: (a) Except for current tax obligations, easements, or restrictions of record of the seller, there are no liens or encumbrances on the property in favor of any other person. (b) Every holder of a lien or encumbrance, by ...

...(A) A licensed auctioneer shall complete eight hours of continuing education in accordance with this section prior to renewal of the license under section 4707.10 of the Revised Code. The auction firm manager of a licensed auction firm shall complete eight hours of continuing education in accordance with this section prior to the renewal of the auction firm license under section 4707.10 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) ...

...(A) The department of agriculture may deny, refuse to renew, suspend, or revoke the license of any auction firm or auctioneer for any of the following causes: (1) Obtaining a license through false or fraudulent representation; (2) Making any substantial misrepresentation in an application for a license; (3) A continued course of misrepresentation or for making false promises through agents, advertising, or o...

...tnerships, associations, corporations, trusts, and other legal entities. (B) "Debt adjusting" means doing business in debt adjusting, budget counseling, debt management, or debt pooling service, or holding oneself out, by words of similar import, as providing services to debtors in the management of their debts, to do either of the following: (1) To effect the adjustment, compromise, or discharge of any account, ...

...Nothing in this chapter applies to any of the following: (A) The federal national mortgage association; the federal home loan mortgage corporation; a bank, bank holding company, trust company, savings and loan association, credit union, savings bank, or credit card bank, that is regulated by the office of the comptroller of currency, federal reserve, federal deposit insurance corporation, national credit union adm...

...As used in sections 4712.01 to 4712.14 of the Revised Code: (A) "Buyer" means an individual who is solicited to purchase or who purchases the services of a credit services organization for purposes other than obtaining a business loan as described in division (B)(6) of section 1343.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "Consumer reporting agency" has the same meaning as in the "Fair Credit Reporting Act," 84 Stat. 1128, 15 U...

...If a preneed funeral contract contains a provision stating that the preneed funeral contract will be funded by the purchase of an insurance policy, the insurance agent who sold the policy that will fund that preneed funeral contract shall require that any payment made by the purchaser be made in the form of a check, cashier's check, money order, or debit or credit card, payable only to the insurance company. The insu...

...Sections 4717.31 to 4717.38 of the Revised Code shall be construed as a limitation on the manner in which a person is permitted to accept funds in prepayment for funeral services to be performed in the future, or funeral goods to be used in connection with the funeral or final disposition of human remains, to the end that at all times members of the public may have an opportunity to arrange and pay ...

...(A) As used in sections 4719.01 to 4719.18 of the Revised Code: (1) "Affiliate" means a business entity that is owned by, operated by, controlled by, or under common control with another business entity. (2) "Communication" means a written or oral notification or advertisement that meets both of the following criteria, as applicable: (a) The notification or advertisement is transmitted by or on behalf of the se...

...(A) The board of nursing shall: (1) Administer and enforce the provisions of this chapter, including the taking of disciplinary action for violations of section 4723.28 of the Revised Code, any other provisions of this chapter, or rules adopted under this chapter; (2) Develop criteria that an applicant must meet to be eligible to sit for the examination for licensure to practice as a registered nurse or as a li...

...(A) A person who seeks to operate a dialysis training program shall apply to the board of nursing for approval of the program. Applications shall be submitted in accordance with rules adopted under section 4723.79 of the Revised Code. The person shall include with the application the fee prescribed in those rules. (B)(1) Except as provided in divisions (B)(2) and (3) of this section, if the program meets the requir...

...(A) A person or government entity seeking to operate a training program that prepares individuals to become certified community health workers shall submit an application to the board of nursing on forms the board shall prescribe and furnish. The applicant shall include all information the board requires to process the application. The application shall be accompanied by the fee established in rules adopted under sec...

...(A) An out-of-state commercial broker, for a fee, commission, or other valuable consideration, or in the expectation, or upon the promise of receiving or collecting a fee, commission, or other valuable consideration, may perform those acts that require a license under this chapter, with respect to commercial real estate, provided that the out-of-state commercial broker does all of the following: (1) Works in coopera...

...(A) In engaging in appraisal activities, a person certified, registered, or licensed under this chapter shall comply with the applicable standards prescribed by the board of governors of the federal reserve system, the federal deposit insurance corporation, the comptroller of the currency, the national credit union administration, and the resolution trust corporation in connection with federally related transactions ...

...(A) Each individual who desires to serve as an athlete agent within this state shall first file an application for registration with the Ohio athletic commission. The applicant shall apply using a form prescribed by the commission and shall provide all the following information: (1) The name and residential address of the applicant; (2) The address of the primary location in which the applicant wishes to conduct bu...

...(A) Prior to issuing a certificate of registration, the Ohio athletic commission shall require an athlete agent to submit proof of one of the following securities: (1) A surety bond in the amount of fifteen thousand dollars in favor of the state of Ohio for the benefit of any person who is injured by a violation of this chapter or rules adopted under this chapter; (2) A certificate of deposit in favor of, or a savi...

...(A) No provision of sections 4781.36 to 4781.52 of the Revised Code may be modified or waived by any oral or written agreement except as provided in division (F) of this section. (B) No warrant of attorney to confess judgment shall be recognized in any rental agreement or in any other agreement between a park operator and resident for the recovery of rent or damages to the residential premises. (C) No agreem...

...(A) Every written rental agreement for residential premises shall contain the name and address of the owner of the residential premises and the name and address of the owner's agent, if any. If the owner or the owner's agent is a corporation, partnership, limited partnership, association, trust, or other entity, the address shall be the principal place of business in the county in which the residential premises...

...The consumers' counsel shall be a resident of this state and during the counsel's term of office shall not hold any other office of either trust or profit under the government of the United States, this state, or any political subdivision of this state, except that this section shall not be construed to preclude the consumers' counsel from serving as a member of the reserve of the armed forces of the United States or...

...(A) As used in section 4923.04 of the Revised Code: "Interchange" means the act of providing intermodal equipment to a motor carrier pursuant to an intermodal equipment interchange agreement for the purpose of transporting the equipment for loading or unloading by any person or repositioning the equipment for the benefit of the equipment provider, but it does not include the leasing of equipment to a motor carrier f...

...(A) Every person, firm, or corporation engaging in the sale of steamship or railroad tickets for transportation to or from foreign countries shall execute and deliver a bond to the state approved by, and filed in the office of, the secretary of state, in the sum of five thousand dollars, conditioned for the selling of genuine and valid steamship or railroad tickets for such transportation. (B) Such bond shall be exe...

...The earnings of a railroad in the hands of a receiver, and all other money which comes into his hands as receiver, shall be applied first to pay: (A) Costs and expenses of the suit in which he was appointed; (B) The expenses of operating and managing the railroad, including materials and supplies procured by him for it; (C) The liabilities incurred by him in such operation and management. Judgments recovered agai...

...The real and personal property, roadbed, right of way, fixtures, and franchises of a railroad company in this state which has not completed, nor conveyed by deed of trust or mortage, any part of its railroad, and which is insolvent, and whose property is in the hands of a receiver appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction, may be sold at judicial sale, and title thereto, with all the rights, liberties, faculties...

...When a sale referred to in section 4969.12 of the Revised Code is made and reported to the court, if satisfied that it was conducted according to law and its order, the court shall confirm the sale and order the receiver to execute and deliver to the purchaser a deed of conveyance for the railroad, roadbed, rights of way, real estate, fixtures, and franchises so sold. The proceeds of the sale, after paying the costs...

...When proceedings are pending in any court for the sale of the railroad of a railroad company, under a mortgage or deed of trust, and two thirds in interest of the creditors and two thirds in interest of the stockholders of the company agree, in writing, upon a plan for the readjustment or capitalization of the debt and stock of the company, the court shall render judgment against the company for the amount due and in...