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...(A) Except for those records kept during the regular course of a criminal investigation and prosecution, or as otherwise required by law, no government entity or official, and no agent or employee of a governmental entity shall knowingly keep or cause to be kept any list, record, or registry of privately owned firearms or the owners of those firearms. (B) No financial institution or agent of a financial institution...

...of the Revised Code and, upon finding a violation, provide written notice to the person or entity believed to have committed the violation. The person or entity shall cease the violation within thirty days after receiving notice from the attorney general under this section. (2) The attorney general may administer oaths, subpoena witnesses, adduce evidence, and require the production of relevant matter for the purpo...

... only remedies that are available for a violation of section 1349.45 of the Revised Code by a registrant or licensee under Chapter 1322. of the Revised Code are those set forth in section 1322.50 of the Revised Code or otherwise provided by statute or common law. (3) The provisions of division (B) of this section are not intended to be exclusive remedies and do not preclude the use of any other remedy provided by la...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Goods or services" does not include the creation, dissemination, exhibition, or advertisement, or a similar promotion, of a dramatic, literary, musical, political, journalistic, or artistic work. (2) "Governmental unit" means the government of the United States, the state, a political subdivision of the state, or any department, agency, board, commission, or other instrumentality...

...Not later than sixty days after a party is served with a complaint, cross-claim, counterclaim, third-party claim, or other pleading that asserts a cause of action to which this chapter applies, the party may file a motion for expedited relief to dismiss the civil action or claim. The court may extend the sixty-day period to file the motion for expedited relief for good cause shown.

...(A)(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, if a motion for expedited relief is filed under section 2747.02 of the Revised Code, the court shall stay all other proceedings in the action between the moving party and responding party, including discovery and any other pending hearing or motion. (2) Upon request by the moving party, the court may stay a hearing or motion involving another party in the action,...

...(A)(1) The court shall conduct a hearing not later than sixty days after the filing of a motion for expedited relief, unless the court orders a later hearing to allow for limited discovery under section 2747.03 of the Revised Code or delays the hearing for other good cause. (2) If the court orders a later hearing to allow for limited discovery, the court shall conduct the hearing not later than sixty days after the...

...(A) If the court grants a motion for expedited relief under section 2747.04 of the Revised Code, the court shall award reasonable attorney's fees, court costs, and other reasonable litigation expenses to the moving party. The court shall not fail to award, or reduce an award of, attorney's fees, court costs, and other reasonable litigation expenses under this division on the grounds that the representation of the mov...

...(A) Sections 2747.01 to 2747.06 of the Revised Code apply to a civil action filed or any claim asserted in a civil action on or after the effective date of this section. (B) A court shall broadly construe and apply sections 2747.01 to 2747.06 of the Revised Code to protect the exercise of the right of freedom of speech and of the press, the right to assemble and petition, and the right of association, guaranteed by...

...re is hereby created the environmental protection agency, headed by the director of environmental protection. The agency, under the supervision of the director, shall administer the laws pertaining to chemical emergency planning, community right-to-know, and toxic chemical release reporting; the cessation of chemical handling operations; the prevention, control, and abatement of air and water pollution; public...

...general assembly that the environmental protection agency shall: (A) Promulgate and put into execution a long term comprehensive plan and program to conserve, protect, and enhance the air, water, and other natural resources of the state; (B) Prevent and abate pollution of the environment for the protection and preservation of the health, safety, welfare, and property of the people of the state; (C) Administer...

...(A) The director of environmental protection shall collect all moneys for permits, licenses, plan approvals, variances, and certifications of any nature issued and administered by the environmental protection agency under Chapter 3704., 3714., 3734., 6109., or 6111. of the Revised Code. The director shall keep a record of all such moneys collected showing the amounts received, from whom, and for what purpose collecte...

...ll moneys received by the environmental protection agency from the sale of goods or services shall be credited to the sale of goods and services fund which is hereby created in the state treasury. Moneys credited to the fund shall include: (A) Moneys received pursuant to service agreements between programs or activities of the environmental protection agency under which one program or activity within the agency prov...

...stered by the director of environmental protection. Money credited to the fund shall be used for administrative costs of the environmental protection agency. The director may assess any operating funds from which the agency receives appropriations, except the central support indirect fund, for a share of the administrative costs of the agency. The amounts assessed shall be transferred to the central support indirect ...

...in the state treasury the environmental protection fund consisting of money credited to the fund under division (A)(3) of section 3734.57 and division (E) of section 3714.07 of the Revised Code. The environmental protection agency shall use money in the fund to pay the agency's costs associated with administering and enforcing, or otherwise conducting activities under, this chapter and Chapters 3704., 3734., 3746., 3...

...s, and contributions. The environmental protection agency shall use money in the fund to support the investigation and remediation of contaminated property and implementation of the hazardous waste provisions of Chapter 3734. of the Revised Code.

...t is administered by the environmental protection agency. (2) "Regulated entity" means an entity that is regulated under an environmental law. (B)(1) The director of environmental protection may establish within the agency a program for providing compliance and pollution prevention assistance to regulated entities. Services provided under the program may include all of the following: (a) Establishment of a st...

...The director of environmental protection shall establish within environmental protection the agency a division to administer the agency's financial, technical, and compliance programs to assist communities, businesses, and other regulated entities. The division shall administer all of the following: (A) State revolving wastewater and drinking water loan programs under sections 6109.22 and 6111.036 of the Revised Cod...

...requiring the director of environmental protection to provide public notice by publication in one or more newspapers, including one or more newspapers of general circulation, the director may instead provide public notice by publication on the environmental protection agency's official web site. (B) Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code or Administrative Code requiring the director of environmental pro...

...nd intermittent help. The environmental protection agency shall furnish such clerical and stenographic services to the commission as the commission requests and is reasonably available. Two members constitute a quorum, and no action of the commission shall be valid unless it has the concurrence of at least two members. The commission shall keep a record of its proceedings. Biennially one member shall be elected as ...

...(A) The environmental review appeals commission shall adopt or amend, as appropriate, regulations governing procedure to be followed for hearings before it, including regulations governing all of the following: (1) Expedited hearings; (2) Expedited decisions; (3) Stays. (B) No regulation adopted by the commission shall be effective until the tenth day after it has been adopted by the filing of a certified copy th...

...mit, or variance from the environmental protection agency, and includes any department, agency, or instrumentality of the federal government that is an applicant for or holder of a license, permit, or variance from the environmental protection agency. As used in this section, "action" or "act" includes the adoption, modification, or repeal of a rule or standard, the issuance, modification, or revocation of any lawf...

...ducted by the director of environmental protection in accordance with sections 119.09 and 119.10 of the Revised Code or conducted by a board of health, the environmental review appeals commission is confined to the record as certified to it by the director or the board of health, as applicable. The commission may grant a request for the admission of additional evidence when satisfied that such additional eviden...

...ereafter, the director of environmental protection shall enter into a contract for the performance of an independent evaluation of the Title V permit program to be conducted under the supervision of an independent certified public accountant. The evaluation shall review the finances, operations, revenues, costs, and expenditures of the Title V permit program under section 3704.036 of the Revised Code and the Ti...

... denied, the director of environmental protection shall refund to the applicant one-half of the amount of the review fee paid by the applicant under division (A) of this section. (B) If a person conducts any activities for which an individual state isolated wetland permit is required under Chapter 6111. of the Revised Code and rules adopted under it without first obtaining such a permit, the person shall pay t...