2007 Regular Session (Ohio Session Laws)

AN ACT To amend section 503.52 and to enact sections 715.55 and 2907.40 of the Revised Code to restrict the hours of operation of sexually oriented businesses, to prohibit patrons and employees of a sexually oriented business who are not immediate family members from touching each other while on the premises of that business and while the employee is nude or seminude, and to require the state to...

AN ACT To amend sections 4725.01, 4730.11, 4762.02, 4762.03, 4762.031, 4762.04 to 4762.06, 4762.08 to 4762.11, 4762.13, 4762.131, 4762.132, 4762.15, 4762.16, and 4762.18 and to enact section 4762.22 of the Revised Code to modify the laws regarding the practice of acupuncturists, to specify the conditions that optometrists must meet when prescribing certain anti-inflammatory drugs, and to provide...

AN ACT To amend sections 1541.31, 1547.14, 1547.24, 1547.99, and 1548.032 and to enact sections 1547.072 and 1547.132 of the Revised Code to make changes to the laws governing watercraft, to revise the Pymatuning Lake Compact, and to declare an emergency.

AN ACT To amend sections 4501.01, 4507.03, 4511.01, 4511.202, 4513.11, and 4513.99 of the Revised Code to require farm machinery that is designed by its manufacturer to operate at a speed greater than 25 miles per hour to display a speed identification symbol and a slow-moving vehicle emblem when operated on a road or highway and to further address the operation of such farm machinery on roads...

AN ACT To amend sections 3501.05, 3501.22, 3503.01, 3505.31, 3506.05, 3509.05, 3511.06, and 3511.11 and to enact section 3501.053 of the Revised Code to revise the Election Law.

AN ACT To amend sections 307.12, 505.10, 4707.02, 4707.20, 4707.21, and 4707.26 of the Revised Code to exempt certain tax exempt organizations and schools that sell donated items at auction from license and contract requirements for the auction, to require those organizations and schools to maintain auction records for two years, to preclude claims against the Auction Recovery Fund for any loss...

AN ACT To enact section 5.2235 of the Revised Code to designate October as "German Heritage Month."

AN ACT To amend sections 1701.03, 1705.03, 1705.04, 1705.53, 1785.01, 1785.02, 1785.03, 1785.08, 3715.87, 3715.871, 3715.872, 3715.873, 4723.16, 4725.33, 4729.161, 4731.226, 4731.23, 4731.65, 4732.28, 4734.10, 4734.15, 4734.16, 4734.17, 4734.19, 4734.31, 4734.311, 4734.34, 4734.36, 4734.37, 4734.38, 4734.39, 4734.47, 4734.49, 4734.50, 4734.55, 4734.99, 4755.471, 4762.01, 4762.02, 4762.09, 4762.10,

AN ACT To enact section 119.14 of the Revised Code to waive fines or penalties for paperwork violations that are first-time offenses committed by small businesses.

AN ACT To amend sections 924.01, 924.02, 924.08, 924.09, and 924.99 and to enact sections 924.20 to 924.30 and 3717.53 of the Revised Code to establish a grain marketing program, to provide that the Director of Agriculture has exclusive authority to regulate the provision of food nutrition information at food service operations, and to provide incentives for bioproducts innovation in the Ohio...

AN ACT To enact section 5.2238 of the Revised Code to designate April 29 of each year "Heritage and Freedom Flag of the Former Republic of Vietnam Day."

AN ACT To amend sections 2901.30 and 3313.672 of the Revised Code with respect to law enforcement cooperation and schools' record keeping duties in missing children investigations.

AN ACT To amend section 2305.37 of the Revised Code to provide persons who donate consumer goods to a charitable agency with qualified immunity from civil liability for harm that allegedly arises because the consumer goods are not fit for use and to establish a qualified immunity from civil liability for certain charitable agencies that distribute perishable food or consumer goods free of charge...

AN ACT To amend sections 9.821, 9.822, 9.823, 9.83, 107.12, 107.40, 109.57, 109.572, 109.93, 111.18, 117.11, 119.07, 120.33, 121.48, 121.51, 122.17, 122.171, 122.602, 122.652, 124.152, 125.04, 125.45, 125.93, 125.96, 125.97, 125.98, 126.07, 126.08, 126.16, 126.21, 126.22, 127.16, 131.44, 133.01, 133.081, 149.311, 151.08, 151.40, 156.02, 164.03, 164.08, 164.09, 166.08, 167.04, 173.04, 173.35, 173.7

AN ACT To amend sections 305.12, 308.04, 503.01, 715.72, 715.74, 715.75, 715.76, 715.761, 715.77, 715.78, 715.81, 4501.21, 4517.21, 4765.43, 4931.61, 4931.62, 4931.63, 4931.64, 4931.65, 4931.66, and 4931.70; to contingently amend sections 4503.494, 4503.496, 4503.531, and 4503.92; and to enact sections 4503.712, 4513.66, 4765.431, and 4931.651 of the Revised Code to permit local law enforcement...

AN ACT To amend sections 125.22, 4703.01 to 4703.15, 4703.151, 4703.16, 4703.18, 4703.181, 4703.19, 4703.331, 4703.34, 4703.37, 4703.50, 4703.51, and 4703.52 of the Revised Code to make changes to the Architects Law.

AN ACT To amend section 3734.13 and to enact sections 3734.91, 3734.911, 3734.912, 3734.913, 3734.914, and 3734.915 of the Revised Code to establish requirements governing the disposal and collection of used lead-acid batteries.

AN ACT To amend sections 125.18, 317.082, 319.28, 319.54, 2305.09, and 2901.13 and to enact sections 109.941, 111.241, 149.434, 149.45, 1349.52, and 1349.53 of the Revised Code to allow a consumer to place a security freeze on the consumer's credit report, to require a public office to redact from a document that is otherwise a public record certain information, to require a public office to...

AN ACT To enact sections 5.2240, 4173.01, 4173.02, and 4173.03 of the Revised Code to establish a "good Samaritan law" to encourage retail establishments to allow customers with eligible medical conditions to use the retail establishment's restrooms that are not usually available to the public, to limit the liability of an establishment that allows such access, and to designate May 23 as Crohn's...

AN ACT To amend sections 4731.051, 4731.07, 4731.22, 4731.224, 4731.24, and 4731.25 and to enact sections 4774.01, 4774.02, 4774.03, 4774.031, 4774.04 to 4774.06, 4774.08 to 4774.11, 4774.13, 4774.131, 4774.132, 4774.14 to 4774.18, 4774.20, 4774.21, and 4774.99 of the Revised Code to regulate the practice of radiologist assistants.

AN ACT To amend sections 3923.05 and 3923.80 and to enact sections 3701.86, 3701.861, 3923.82, and 4731.72 of the Revised Code and to amend Section 5 of Sub. H.B. 125 of the 127th General Assembly regarding billing for anatomic pathology services, health benefits for routine patient care during cancer clinical trials, health benefits for injuries resulting from use of alcohol or drugs, and most...

AN ACT To amend sections 2907.07, 2907.21, 2907.40, and 2929.13 of the Revised Code to provide mandatory minimum prison terms for persons who plead guilty to or are convicted of importuning, to modify the definition of "adult cabaret" as used in connection with the operation of a sexually oriented business, and to apply the offense of compelling prostitution to an offender who believes the person

AN ACT To amend sections 2915.01 and 3769.07 and to enact sections 2915.06 and 2915.061 of the Revised Code to allow the same person, association, trust, or corporation to own and operate two separate race tracks in Ohio, to modify the definition of "slot machine" and "skill-based amusement machine" for purposes of the Gambling Law, to create a limit on the redemption value of prizes associated...

AN ACT To amend sections 901.41, 901.70, 903.01, 943.01, and 947.01 of the Revised Code to include alpacas and llamas in certain statutory definitions of "agricultural animal" and "livestock."

AN ACT To amend sections 515.04, 515.05, 515.08, 515.11, 515.12, and 515.15 and to enact section 515.16 of the Revised Code to authorize townships to relocate overhead cables, wires, and appurtenant equipment underground upon petition; to pay for a relocation by assessing abutting and otherwise specially benefited properties; to collect interest on unpaid assessments for an underground relocation

AN ACT To amend sections 971.01, 971.04, 971.05, 971.06, 971.07, 971.08, 971.09, 971.10, 971.33, 971.34, and 971.99; to amend for the purpose of adopting new section numbers as indicated in parentheses sections 971.04 (971.09), 971.05 (971.10), 971.06 (971.11), 971.07 (971.12), 971.08 (971.13), 971.09 (971.14), and 971.10 (971.15); to enact new sections 971.02, 971.03, 971.04, 971.05, 971.06, 971.

AN ACT To amend sections 145.01, 145.19, 145.191, 145.33, 145.35, 145.49, 145.58, 742.45, and 742.63 and to enact section 145.2914 of the Revised Code regarding the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) law enforcement division, the Ohio Public Safety Officers Death Benefit Fund, and reimbursement by PERS and the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund for Medicare Part B premiums.

AN ACT To amend section 1513.07 and to enact section 1513.076 of the Revised Code to provide for the timely issuance of coal mining and reclamation permits.

AN ACT To amend sections 121.04, 3731.01, 3731.02, 3731.03, 3731.04, 3731.05, 3731.06, 3731.11, 3731.12, 3731.16, 3731.20, 3731.21, 3731.99, and 4745.01 and to enact sections 1.601 and 3731.041 of the Revised Code to allow transient hotels to permit guests to stay longer than thirty days, to allow extended stay hotels to permit guests to stay longer than one year, to make changes to the law...

AN ACT To enact section 4501.81 of the Revised Code to establish a next of kin database within the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.