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...The secretary of state shall not file or record articles of incorporation or consolidation, certificates, or other papers referred to in section 111.16 of the Revised Code unless the fee has been paid.

...(A) The secretary of state shall keep a record of all fees collected by the secretary of state and, except as otherwise provided in the Revised Code, shall pay them into the state treasury to the credit of the corporate and uniform commercial code filing fund created by section 1309.528 of the Revised Code. (B) The secretary of state may implement alternative payment programs that permit payment of any fee ch...

... Fees paid under protest to the secretary of state and deposited by him in the state treasury are recoverable only by a suit against the state and not against the secretary of state. For such purpose permission is hereby given by this section to maintain actions against the state in the cases and to the extent that such actions might be maintained against the secretary of state, if the fees were held by him. Service ...

...The certificate of compliance with the laws of this state issued to a corporation not organized under the laws of this state, or a copy of such certificate certified by the state officer issuing same, or his successor in office, shall be prima-facie evidence of the due incorporation and existence of the corporation. All officers authorized to issue certificates of compliance to corporations not organized under the la...

...The secretary of state may make copies of all documents filed with the secretary of state's office pursuant to any section of the Revised Code, by microfilm or any other authorized photostatic or digitized process, and destroy the original documents after they are copied.

...Any document filed with the secretary of state that, by statute or by rule or determination of the secretary of state, is required to include a signature of a person may contain, in lieu of the person's original signature, a copy of the person's original signature transmitted by facsimile machine to the secretary of state, or be a photocopy or similar reproduction of the person's original signature.

...The secretary of state shall: (A) Make and keep a record of all elections and the votes cast at elections in municipal corporations, townships, and counties upon all questions of electing charter commissions, of adopting charters or amendments to charters, of adopting additional laws or alternative forms of government, of transferring powers to counties, and of withdrawing or revoking those powers; (B) File and ...

...The fiscal officer of every township and the clerk of every municipal corporation, board of elections, and board of county commissioners shall: (A) Furnish and certify to the secretary of state all copies of resolutions, ordinances, other instruments, portions of public records, and other information as the secretary of state requires; and (B) Furnish and certify duplicate copies of so much of each item as the sec...

...(A) The secretary of state, by rule, shall establish, and prescribe guidelines and fees for the use of, an expedited filing service that provides, at the option of the person making a filing, expeditious processing of any filing with the secretary of state under Chapter 1309. or 1329. or Title XVII of the Revised Code. (B) The secretary of state may adopt rules establishing, and prescribing guidelines and fees f...

...(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code, if a person presents a document to the secretary of state for filing or recording, the secretary of state may refuse to accept the document for filing or recording if the document is not required or authorized to be filed or recorded with the secretary of state or the secretary of state has reasonable cause to believe the document is materially false or fra...

...(A) The secretary of state shall not accept a document for filing or recording if the document includes any individual's social security number or federal tax identification number. If a document presented for filing or recording includes any individual's social security number or federal tax identification number and the secretary of state refuses to accept that document for filing or recording, the secretary ...

... (A) As used in this section, "solicit" or "solicitations" means to directly advertise to a person. "Solicit" and "solicitations" do not include either of the following: (1) Communication initiated by a consumer; (2) Advertising or marketing to a person with whom the solicitor has a current or former commercial relationship. (B) Any person other than the federal government, the state, a state agency, or a loc...

... (A) No person shall do any of the following: (1) Include the name of another person on a document filed with the secretary of state under Title XIII or Title XVII of the Revised Code without that person's consent, if the named person is included in the filing as: (a) A statutory agent; (b) The individual causing the document to be delivered for filing; (c) The person incorporating, forming, registering, or o...

...The secretary of state shall prescribe the forms for persons to use in complying with the requirements of Title XVII of the Revised Code to the extent that those requirements relate to filings with the office of the secretary of state.

... (A) It is hereby declared to be a public purpose and function of the state to facilitate the conduct of elections by assisting boards of elections in acquiring state capital facilities consisting of voting machines, marking devices, and automatic tabulating equipment certified for use in this state under section 3506.05 of the Revised Code. Those voting machines, marking devices, and automatic tabulating equip...

...There is hereby established in the state treasury the board of elections reimbursement and education fund. The fund shall be used by the secretary of state to reimburse boards of elections pursuant to sections 3513.301, 3513.312, 3515.071, and 3521.03 of the Revised Code, and to provide training and educational programs for members and employees of boards of elections. The fund shall receive transfers of cash pursuan...

...(A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the help America vote act (HAVA) fund. All moneys received by the secretary of state from the United States election assistance commission for purposes established under the "Help America Vote Act of 2002," Pub. L. No. 107-252, as amended, shall be credited to the fund. The secretary of state shall use the moneys credited to the fund for activities conducted pursuant ...

...The secretary of state shall prescribe forms for campaign finance disclosure statements and independent expenditure statements for the purpose of sections 145.053, 742.042, 3307.072, 3309.072, and 5505.044 of the Revised Code and accept the forms from candidates and persons making independent expenditures filing them with the secretary pursuant to those sections.

... (A) Notwithstanding division (E)(2) of section 3509.03 and division (E)(2) of section 3511.02 of the Revised Code, the secretary of state may mail unsolicited applications for absent voter's ballots to electors for a general election if all of the following apply: (1) The general assembly appropriates funds to the controlling board for that particular mailing; (2) The secretary of state submits a request to the ...

... As used in sections 111.41 to 111.99 of the Revised Code: (A) "Application assistant" means an employee or volunteer at an agency or organization that serves victims of domestic violence, menacing by stalking, human trafficking, trafficking in persons, rape, or sexual battery who has received training and certification from the secretary of state to help individuals complete applications to be program participant...

... (A) A person to whom all of the following applies may apply to the secretary of state with the assistance of an application assistant to become a participant in the address confidentiality program, in which an address designated by the secretary of state serves as the person's address or the address of the minor, incompetent, or ward on whose behalf the person is applying: (1) The applicant is an adult who is appl...

... (A) A program participant may request that a governmental entity, other than a board of elections, use the address designated by the secretary of state as the program participant's address. Except as otherwise provided in division (F) of this section and in section 111.44 of the Revised Code, if the program participant requests that a governmental entity use that address, the governmental entity shall accept that ad...

... (A) A program participant who acquires an ownership interest in real property in this state after being certified as a participant in the address confidentiality program may submit a real property confidentiality notice to the county recorder of the county in which the real property is located. The program participant shall provide the program participant's address confidentiality program authorization card as proof...

...(A) A program participant who is eligible to vote may apply to the board of elections of the county in which the program participant resides to request that the program participant's voter registration record be kept confidential. The program participant shall submit an application to the director of the board of elections, on a form prescribed by the secretary of state, that includes all of the following: (1) The i...

... (A) The secretary of state shall cancel the certification of a program participant if any of the following are true: (1) The program participant's application contained one or more false statements. (2) The program participant has filed a written, notarized request with the secretary of state, on a form prescribed by the secretary of state, asking to cease being a program participant. (3) The program participa...