Ohio Revised Code Search

... (A) As used in this section: (1) "Rape crisis program" means any of the following: (a) The nonprofit state sexual assault coalition designated by the center for injury prevention and control of the federal centers for disease control and prevention; (b) A victim witness assistance program operated by a prosecuting attorney; (c) A program operated by a government-based or nonprofit entity that provides a ful...

...The attorney general education fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of gifts and grants received by the attorney general for the purposes of the fund. The fund shall be administered by the attorney general and shall be used to support various educational programs. These educational programs may include programs for consumer protection, victims of crime, environmental prote...

...(A) The attorney general, in cooperation with any law enforcement agency, may issue an identity fraud passport to a person who is a victim in this state of identity fraud or identity fraud against an elderly person or disabled adult and has filed a police report with any law enforcement agency citing that the person is a victim of a violation of section 2913.49 of the Revised Code. Once a police report of that nature...

... The attorney general shall cooperate with and provide technical assistance to any local law enforcement agency in the state, upon that agency's request, with respect to enforcement of identity fraud crimes.

...Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary pertaining to prosecutorial authority, the attorney general may initiate criminal proceedings for election fraud under section 3599.42 of the Revised Code which results from a violation of any provision of Title XXXV of the Revised Code, other than Chapter 3517. of the Revised Code, involving voting, an initiative or referendum petition process, or the...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Commutation," "pardon," "prisoner," and "state correctional institution" have the same meanings as in section 2967.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Individual's present legal status" means whichever of the following circumstances apply on the thirty-first day of December of the calendar year covered by a capital case status report described in divisions (B) and (C) of this section to a...

...As used in this section, "state retirement board" means the public employees retirement board, board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund, school employees retirement board, state teachers retirement board, and state highway patrol retirement board. If a member of a state retirement board breaches the member's fiduciary duty to the retirement system, the attorney general may maintain a civil action a...

... If a member of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors breaches the member's fiduciary duty to the bureau of workers' compensation, the attorney general may maintain a civil action against the board member for harm resulting from that breach. Notwithstanding section 4121.128 of the Revised Code, after being informed of an allegation that the entire board has breached its fiduciary duty, the boar...

...(A) Whoever violates section 109.26 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than ten thousand dollars or be imprisoned not less than one month nor more than one year, or both. (B) Whoever violates division (G)(1) of section 109.573 of the Revised Code is guilty of unlawful disclosure of DNA database information, a misdemeanor of the first degree. (C) Whoever violates division (G)(2) o...

...The secretary of state shall be elected quadrennially, and shall hold his office for a term of four years. The term of office of the secretary of state shall commence on the second Monday of January next after his election.

...Before entering upon the discharge of the duties of office, the secretary of state shall give a bond to the state in the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, with a surety authorized to do business in the state, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of the office of secretary of state. The bond and the oath of office shall be deposited with and kept by the director of administrative services in t...

...The secretary of state may appoint an assistant secretary of state, whose appointment shall be made in writing under the seal of the secretary of state and entered on record in his office.

...In case of the absence or disability of the secretary of state, the assistant secretary of state shall have power to perform the duties of the secretary of state. The general duties of the assistant secretary shall be such as the secretary of state assigns him.

...Before entering upon the discharge of the duties of his office, the assistant secretary of state shall give bond to the secretary of state in such sum and with such sureties as the secretary of state requires, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office. Such bond shall be deposited with the secretary of state and kept in his office.

...The secretary of state may appoint authenticating officers and delegate to such officers power to sign for the secretary of state any document which, to have legal effect, requires the secretary of state's signature and which is of a class which the secretary of state has authorized for signature by his authenticating officers in a writing on file in his office. Authenticating officers shall sign in the following man...

...The secretary of state or the authenticating officer for the secretary of state shall countersign all commissions issued by the governor and, except as to those of notaries public, shall keep a register of commissions issued, specifying the name of each person commissioned, the office conferred, and the date and tenure of the commission. The secretary of state shall cause all commissions and official papers to be pri...

... The secretary of state shall have charge of and safely keep the laws and resolutions passed by the general assembly and such other papers and documents as are required to be deposited in the secretary of state's office. The Ohio history connection shall have charge of and safely keep the following original documents: Ohio Constitution of 1802; Ohio Constitution of 1851; proposed Ohio Constitution of 1875; design an...

... The secretary of state shall appoint a chief information security officer to advise the secretary of state on matters of information security and to perform other duties as assigned by the secretary of state.

...Each year the secretary of state shall prepare, print, and distribute a table showing the time for holding the terms of the courts of appeals, which table, corrected to show any changes made by the judges or the general assembly, shall be published in his annual report and in the volume of the statutes printed at the close of each second regular session of the general assembly.

... The office of data analytics and archives is created in the office of the secretary of state. Under the direction of the secretary of state, the office shall do both of the following: (A) Retain voter registration and other election related data, analyze those data for purposes of maintaining accurate election data, and publish those data; (B) Retain, analyze, and publish business services data.

... The secretary of state shall compile and publish biennially in a paper, book, or electronic format the election statistics of Ohio, the official roster of federal, state, and county officers, and the official roster of township and municipal officers.

...Each state, county, or other officer under the laws of this state shall answer fully, promptly, and without compensation such special and general questions for securing statistical information as the secretary of state may propose. If any officer refuses or neglects to furnish promptly full and accurate answers to any such questions, he shall forfeit not less than five nor more than fifty dollars, to be recovered by ...

...All classes of statistics returnable to the auditor of state, attorney general, or other state officer, shall be transferred by such officer to the secretary of state, subject to the use of such officer so far as necessary in the discharge of his duties.

... (A) As used in this section: (1) "Rule" includes any rule, regulation, bylaw, or standard having a general and uniform operation adopted by an agency under the authority of the laws governing the agency; any appendix to a rule; and any internal management rule. "Rule" does not include any guideline adopted pursuant to section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code, any order respecting the duties of employees, any finding...

... Except as provided in section 1701.041 of the Revised Code, the secretary of state shall charge and collect, for the benefit of the state, the following fees: (A) For filing and recording articles of incorporation of a domestic corporation, including designation of agent: (1) Wherein the corporation shall not be authorized to issue any shares of capital stock, ninety-nine dollars; (2) Wherein the corporatio...