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...As used in this chapter, except as otherwise provided: (A) "Public office" includes any state agency, public institution, political subdivision, or other organized body, office, agency, institution, or entity established by the laws of this state for the exercise of any function of government. "Public office" does not include the nonprofit corporation formed under section 187.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "Sta...

...Wherever in the Revised Code annual reports are required to be made to the governor, or annual reports to the governor are referred to, such reports shall be made in triplicate and filed as provided in section 149.01 of the Revised Code, and the special information required by any section of the Revised Code to be included in such annual report shall be included in such triplicate reports.

...The governor may at any time require to be filed with him a detailed report from any state officer, board, or commission.

...Messages of the governor, and the inaugural address of the governor-elect, shall be produced and distributed in electronic form to the governor, to each member of the general assembly, and to the state library. A physical copy of the message or address shall be provided, upon request, to any recipient named in this section.

...The annual reports of the elective state officers shall be printed in such numbers as the superintendent of purchases and printing determines.

...One bound copy of each of the final journals and appendixes shall be made available to each member of the general assembly.

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, the secretary of state shall distribute the pamphlet laws in the following manner: one copy of each pamphlet law shall be forwarded to each county law library, one copy of each pamphlet law shall be forwarded to each county auditor, and one hundred copies of each pamphlet law shall be forwarded to the state library board, which shall forward to each li...

... (A) The secretary of state shall compile, publish, and distribute the session laws either annually or biennially in a paper or electronic format. The annual or biennial publication shall contain all enrolled acts and joint resolutions, a subject index, a table indicating Revised Code sections affected, and the secretary of state's certificate that the laws, as compiled and distributed, are true copies of the origina...

...All boards, commissions, agencies, institutions, and departments in the executive branch of state government shall submit to the auditor of state a copy of each formal internally or independently produced audit report, as well as any management study or report which recommends changes which would affect the auditing system.

...(A) Any department, division, bureau, board, or commission of the state government issuing a report, pamphlet, document, or other publication intended for general public use and distribution, which publication is reproduced by duplicating processes in print whether through a contract awarded to any person, company, or the state printing division of the department of administrative services, shall cause to be delivere...

...The state library board shall forward, free of charge, in a paper or electronic format, one copy of each legislative bulletin, daily house and senate journal, pamphlet law as described in section 149.09 of the Revised Code, and summary of enactments published by the legislative service commission, to the following libraries: (A) Each library within the state that has been designated by the state library board...

...The secretary of state shall distribute all copies of the laws and all copies of the bound house and senate journals. If no provision is made by law for the distribution of any report printed by the state, it may be distributed by the state library board in accordance with section 149.11 of the Revised Code, on the order of the officer making the report.

...Highway maps shall be published by the state and shall be officially designated as "Highway Maps of Ohio." The director of transportation may designate the improved roads by color, and revise such maps from time to time as the improvement of the roads may justify. The director shall secure a copyright of the maps from time to time when so published. The director may distribute the first edition of these maps, which...

...(A) As used in sections 149.21 to 149.27 of the Revised Code: (1) "Electronic" means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. (2) "Legal material" means all of the following, whether or not in effect: (a) The Constitution of this state; (b) The session laws of this state; (c) The Revised Code; (d) State agency rules that have or ha...

... (A) If an official publisher publishes legal material only in an electronic record, the publisher shall designate the electronic record as official and comply with division (A) of section 149.23 and with section 149.24 of the Revised Code. (B) An official publisher that publishes legal material in an electronic record and also publishes the material in a record other than an electronic record may designate the el...

... (A) An official publisher of legal material in an electronic record that is designated as official under section 149.22 of the Revised Code shall authenticate the record. To authenticate an electronic record, the publisher shall provide a method for a user to determine that the record received by the user from the publisher is unaltered from the official record published by the publisher. (B) Legal material in an...

... (A) An official publisher of legal material in an electronic record that is or was designated as official under section 149.22 of the Revised Code shall provide for the preservation and security of the record in an electronic or nonelectronic form, and shall do all of the following: (1) Ensure the integrity of the record; (2) Provide for backup and disaster recovery of the record; (3) Ensure the continuing us...

... In implementing sections 149.21 to 149.27 of the Revised Code, an official publisher of legal material in an electronic record shall consider all of the following: (A) Standards and practices of other jurisdictions; (B) The most recent standards regarding authentication of, preservation and security of, and public access to, legal material in an electronic record, and other electronic records, a s promulgated b...

... In applying and construing sections 149.21 to 149.27 of the Revised Code, a court shall consider the need to promote uniformity of the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.

...Sections 149.21 to 149.27 of the Revised Code modify, limit, and supersede the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 U.S.C. 7001 et seq., but do not modify, limit, or supersede 15 U.S.C. 7001(c) or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices or documents described in 15 U.S.C. 7003(b).

... The Ohio history connection, chartered by this state as a corporation not for profit to promote a knowledge of history and archaeology, especially of Ohio, and operated continuously in the public interest since 1885, may perform public functions as prescribed by law. The general assembly may appropriate money to the Ohio history connection each biennium to carry out the public functions of the Ohio history connect...

...(A) There is hereby created the Ohio historic site preservation advisory board, to consist of seventeen members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. Terms of office shall be for three years, commencing on the fifteenth day of January and ending on the fourteenth day of January. Each member shall hold office from the date of the member's appointment until the end of the term for which t...

... (A) The Ohio history connection, in addition to its other functions, shall establish a museum in the vicinity of Wilberforce to be known as the national museum of Afro-American history and culture. For this purpose the Ohio history connection may accept donations of money, property, and personal services, apply for and receive federal assistance, acquire real property or any estate, right, or interest therein, const...

... Any person owning or in possession of an Ohio homestead or tract of land which has been owned or in the possession of the person's family for one hundred years or more may apply to the Ohio history connection to list the homestead or tract of land in a register to be maintained by the Ohio history connection. The Ohio history connection shall provide forms for such applications and shall submit applications receive...

... (A) The Ohio history connection, in addition to its other public functions, shall cooperate with the Ohio African-American hall of fame governing board established in section 149.306 of the Revised Code to establish the Ohio African-American hall of fame. (B) The purpose of the hall of fame shall be to provide recognition to African-Americans who have made significant contributions to the state. The governing board...