Ohio Revised Code Search

... As used in sections 175.30 to 175.32 of the Revised Code: (A) "First home" or "home" means the first residential real property located in this state to be purchased by a recipient who has not owned or had an ownership interest in a principal residence in the three years prior to the purchase. (B) "Graduate" means an individual who has graduated from an institution of higher education and who is eligible under ...

...(A) There is hereby created the grants for grads program for the purpose of providing grants or other financial assistance or down payment assistance to Ohio residents who have received an associate, baccalaureate, master's, doctoral, or other postgraduate degree, which grants or assistance shall be used by a recipient to pay for the down payment or closing costs on the purchase of a first home. The pro...

... (A)(1) At the time a first home is purchased under the program, the Ohio housing finance agency shall secure the amount of the down payment assistance by a lien on the home for a period of five years. Such lien shall attach, and may be perfected, collected, and enforced in the same manner as a mortgage lien on the home, and shall otherwise have the same force and effect as a mortgage lien, except that it shall be su...

...(A) Any municipal corporation, county, or township may, alone or jointly with one or more contiguous or overlapping other municipal corporations, counties, or townships, establish or designate a housing advisory board. (B) The purposes of a housing advisory board are: (1) To receive and review comprehensive plans for the development and maintenance of affordable housing submitted to the housing advisory board pursu...

...This section does not apply to any county having a population exceeding one million persons, according to the United States bureau of the census, on the effective date of this section, or to any township or municipal corporation located within such a county. (A) A board of county commissioners, a board of township trustees, the chief executive officer of a municipal corporation with the consent of the legislative au...

...In lieu of establishing or designating its own housing advisory board, any municipal corporation or township may enter into an agreement with an overlapping county or with a contiguous municipal corporation or township to receive the services of the county housing advisory board or the housing advisory board of that other municipal corporation or township. Any two or more counties may enter into an agreement to estab...

...Membership on any housing advisory board under section 176.01 or 176.02 of the Revised Code does not constitute the holding of a public office or employment by a political subdivision. The legislative authority of the political subdivision that appoints members of a housing advisory board shall determine what, if any, compensation the members of the board shall receive.

...(A) No municipal corporation, county, or township shall issue general obligations pursuant to section 133.51 of the Revised Code or expend moneys raised by taxation to provide, or assist in providing, housing pursuant to Section 16 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, unless the municipal corporation, county, or township has done all of the following: (1) Established or designated a housing advisory board pursuant...

...(A)(1) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the rate of wages payable for the various occupations covered by sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code to persons employed on a project who are not any of the following shall be determined according to this section: (a) Qualified volunteers; (b) Persons required to participate in a work activity, developmental activity, or alternative work a...

...(A) Each municipal corporation, county, and township shall compile and make available, in accordance with this section, to the public for inspection and copying for a period of five years, the number and total dollar amount of mortgage loans that were originated, for which completed applications were received and applicants were rejected, and that were purchased by that municipal corporation, county, or township duri...

...The director of development, in consultation with the public and the housing trust fund advisory committee created under section 174.06 of the Revised Code, shall develop regulations applicable to all existing and future state housing loan, loan guarantee, loan subsidy, and grant programs. The regulations shall require recipients of financing from state housing programs, that provide or assist in providing multi-fami...

...Each municipal corporation, county, and township shall monitor its exercise of housing authority under Section 16 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, to ensure that it does not encourage, contribute to, or participate in an unlawful discriminatory practice under division (H) of section 4112.02 of the Revised Code or discriminate against families with children.

...(A) The organized crime investigations commission, consisting of seven members, is hereby established in the office of the attorney general. One of the members shall be the attorney general. Of the remaining members, each of whom shall be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate, two shall be prosecuting attorneys, two shall be county sheriffs, and two shall be chief municipal law enforceme...

... (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the organized crime commission fund. The fund shall consist of the following: (1) Money paid to the treasurer of state pursuant to the judgment of a court in a criminal case as reimbursement of expenses that the organized crime investigations commission or an organized crime task force established by the commission incurred in the investigation of the criminal acti...

... (A)(1) As used in this section, "cargo theft" means the unlawful taking of any cargo including goods, chattels, money, or baggage that constitutes a commercial shipment of freight moving in any of the following: (a) Commerce; (b) A pipeline system; (c) A railroad 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...

...(A) An organized crime task force established under section 177.02 of the Revised Code to investigate organized criminal activity in a single county or in two or more counties shall investigate organized criminal activity within the county or counties in accordance with the scope and limits established by the organized crime investigations commission and the task force director. For purposes of the investigation, the...

... (A) The organized retail theft advisory council is created within the office of the attorney general. The council consists of the following members: (1) The attorney general or the attorney general's designee; (2) An employee of the office of the attorney general appointed by the attorney general; (3) The president or chief executive officer of the Ohio council of retail merchants, or the president's or chief ...

... A law enforcement trust fund shall be established by the organized crime investigations commission for the purpose of receiving reimbursement of expenses the organized crime investigations commission incurred in the investigation of the criminal activity through a task force. There is hereby created in the state treasury the organized crime law enforcement trust fund. The fund shall consist of moneys paid to the...

... (A) There is hereby created within the supreme court the state criminal sentencing commission, consisting of thirty-one members. One member shall be the chief justice of the supreme court, who shall be the chairperson of the commission. The following ten members of the commission, no more than six of whom shall be members of the same political party, shall be appointed by the chief justice: one judge of a court of a...

...(A) The state criminal sentencing commission shall study the existing criminal statutes and law of this state, sentencing patterns throughout the state, and available correctional resources. The commission shall use the results of its study to develop and recommend to the general assembly a comprehensive criminal sentencing structure. As part of its study, the commission shall do all of the following: (1) Evaluate t...

...(A) No later than July 1, 1993, the state criminal sentencing commission shall recommend to the general assembly a comprehensive criminal sentencing structure for the state that is consistent with the sentencing policy developed pursuant to division (B) of section 181.23 of the Revised Code and the conclusions of the study conducted pursuant to division (A) of that section. The sentencing structure shall be designed ...

...(A) If the comprehensive criminal sentencing structure that it recommends to the general assembly pursuant to section 181.24 of the Revised Code or any aspects of that sentencing structure are enacted into law, the state criminal sentencing commission shall do all of the following: (1) Assist the general assembly in the implementation of those aspects of the sentencing structure that are enacted into law; (2...

... (A) In addition to its duties set forth in this chapter, the state criminal sentencing commission shall do all of the following: (1) Review all statutes governing delinquent child, unruly child, and juvenile traffic offender dispositions in this state; (2) Review state and local resources, including facilities and programs, used for delinquent child, unruly child, and juvenile traffic offender dispositions and t...

... (A) In addition to its duties set forth in sections 181.23 to 181.26 of the Revised Code, the state criminal sentencing commission is hereby designated a criminal justice agency, as defined in section 109.571 of the Revised Code, and as such is authorized by this state to apply for access to the computerized databases administered by the national crime information center or the law enforcement automated data system ...

... (A) "OneOhio recovery foundation" means the nonprofit corporation receiving payments under the settlement agreement in State of Ohio v. McKesson Corp., Case No. CVH20180055 (C.P. Madison Co., settlement agreement of October 7, 2021) and its constituent regional boards. (B) The OneOhio recovery foundation is not any of the following: (1) A state agency as defined in section 1.60, 9.28, 121.41, or 149.011 of the...