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Title 17, Title 17. Corporations-Partnerships

41 chapters · 1,271 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 171,271 Ch 1701, Chapter 1701 | General Corporation Law118 Ch 1706, Chapter 1706 | Ohio Revised Limited …92 Ch 1751, Chapter 1751 | Health Insuring Corpo…83 Ch 1707, Chapter 1707 | Securities77 Ch 1733, Chapter 1733 | Credit Unions77 Ch 1782, Chapter 1782 | Limited Partnerships76 Ch 1776, Chapter 1776 | Ohio Uniform Partners…73 Ch 1702, Chapter 1702 | Nonprofit Corporation Law67 Ch 1745, Chapter 1745 | Uniform Unincorporate…54 Ch 1729, Chapter 1729 | Ohio Cooperative Law53 Ch 1715, Chapter 1715 | Religious And Benevol…52 Ch 1713, Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations50 Ch 1711, Chapter 1711 | Agricultural Societie…40 Ch 1703, Chapter 1703 | Foreign Corporations30

50 sections·Filtered byTitle 17✕Ch 1713✕

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.01 Institution defined
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As used in sections 1713.01 to 1713.06 of the Revised Code, "institution" includes:(A) Any nonprofit university, college, academy, school, or other institution, incorporated or unincorporated, that does any of the following:(1) Awards or intends to award diplomas for the completi…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.02 Certificate of authorization
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(A) Any institution described in division (A) of section 1713.01 of the Revised Code may become incorporated under sections 1702.01 to 1702.58 of the Revised Code.(B) Except as provided in division (E) of this section, no nonprofit institution or corporation of the type described…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.03 Standards for certificate of authorization
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The chancellor of higher education shall establish standards for certificates of authorization to be issued to institutions as defined in section 1713.01 of the Revised Code, to private institutions exempt from regulation under Chapter 3332. of the Revised Code as prescribed in s…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.031 Review of application for certificate of authorization
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The chancellor of higher education shall review an application for a certificate of authorization from a school described in division (E) of section 3332.01 of the Revised Code within twenty-two weeks.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.032 Online program manager contracts

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(A) As used in this section: (1) "Online program manager" means an entity that is not an institution of higher education as defined under "The Higher Education Act of 1965," 20 U.S.C. 1001, that enters into an agreement with a private institution of higher education to provide ma…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.033 Student record preservation plans

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Each institution or school with a certificate of authorization issued under this chapter annually shall certify to the chancellor of higher education, on a date and in the form and manner determined by the chancellor, a plan to preserve student records indefinitely if the institu…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.04 Certificate subject to revocation

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A certificate of authorization provided for in section 1713.02 of the Revised Code is subject to revocation by the chancellor of higher education for cause pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.041 Annual reporting requirements

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(A) Each institution or school authorized to offer courses or degrees under a certificate of authorization annually shall provide to the chancellor of higher education all of the following: (1) Verification of current accreditation status and a copy of the most recent institution…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.05 Rates for loans to students

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(A) As used in this section:(1) "College or university" means a nonprofit educational institution qualifying under division (A)(2) of section 1713.01 and holding a certificate of authorization issued under section 1713.02 of the Revised Code.(2) "Controlled entity" means a wholly…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.06 Corporation may be restrained from exercise of its franchise

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If any institution, school, or person confers degrees, diplomas, or other written evidences of proficiency or achievement or offers or intends to offer a course or courses in this state applicable to requirements for a diploma or degree without the certificate of authorization re…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.07 Institution may hold donated property in trust

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A university, college, or academy, or the board of trustees thereof, may hold in trust any property devised, bequeathed, or donated to such institution, upon any specific trust consistent with the objects of such institution.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.08 Faculty

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The president and professors shall constitute the faculty of any incorporated literary college or university. They may enforce the rules and regulations enacted by its board of trustees for the government and discipline of the students and may suspend and expel offenders.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.09 Location may be changed

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A college, university, or other institution of learning, existing by virtue of an act of incorporation, or that becomes incorporated for any of the purposes specified in sections 1713.01 to 1713.39, inclusive, of the Revised Code, if three-fourths of the trustees or directors the…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.10 Endowment fund diverted

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The board of trustees of a corporation incorporated to create, hold, and manage a college endowment fund, the articles of incorporation of which provide that the fund may be applied to any object not inconsistent with the purposes of education different from that particularly spe…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.11 Temporary loans secured by mortgage authorized

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The board of trustees of a college, university, academy, seminary, or other institution devoted to the promotion of education, in anticipation of donations to be received and collections to be made, for the purpose of constructing, enlarging, or adding to college buildings or imp…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.12 Sections applicable to certain boards of trustees

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The board of trustees of any university or college operating under the patronage of one or more conferences or other religious bodies of any religious denomination, may accept sections 1713.12 to 1713.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code, by resolution adopted at any regular meetin…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.13 Trustees to be divided into classes - president ex-officio member - limitations and designations

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The president of a university or college referred to in section 1713.12 of the Revised Code, shall, ex officio, be a member of the board of trustees after the acceptance of sections 1713.12 to 1713.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code, by any such university or college. At any of i…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.14 Term of office of trustees - vacancies

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The regular term of office of the trustees referred to in section 1713.13 of the Revised Code shall be five years, but upon the original formation of classes of trustees one or more trustees may be elected for one, two, three, and four-year terms until the regular order can be es…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.15 Term of trustees - expiration - members - vacancies

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If any university or college operating under the patronage of one or more conferences or other religious bodies in any denomination, where one of the conferences or other religious bodies holds regular biennial instead of annual meetings, the regular term of office of the trustee…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.16 Reclassification and reapportionment of trustees

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If the number of conferences or other religious bodies patronizing a university or college referred to in section 1713.12 of the Revised Code shall at any time be increased or decreased, the board of trustees of such university or college may reclassify the trustees of said bodie…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.17 Alumni association may elect one fifth of board

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The alumni composing the alumni association of a university or college referred to in section 1713.12 of the Revised Code may elect as members of the board of trustees of such university or college, as many members of such alumni association as there are members of the class of a…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.18 Presiding head of conference may be trustee - life trustees

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Any university or college operating under the patronage of one or more conferences or other religious bodies of any religious denomination, having accepted sections 1713.13 to 1713.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may, upon the authority of a resolution of its board of trustee…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.19 Conference may become a patron

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Any conference or other religious body not patronizing any particular university or college may become a patronizing body upon invitation of the board of trustees of such university or college by a majority vote of the whole board. The intention to become such patronizing body sh…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.20 Quorum of trustees

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Eleven trustees shall constitute a quorum of the board of trustees of any university or college referred to in section 1713.12 of the Revised Code, whatever the number of trustees, if more than twenty, is or may become; but when the number is twenty or less, a majority thereof sh…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.21 Termination of right of representation

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If a conference or other religious body patronizing a university or college and having a representation in its board of trustees, ceases to exist, or ceases to patronize such university or college, the right of such conference or other religious body to such representation shall …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.22 Colleges under ecclesiastical patronage

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A corporation may be formed for the promotion of academic, collegiate, or university education, under religious influences, may set forth in its articles or certificate of incorporation, as a part thereof, the name of the religious sect, association, or denomination with which it…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.23 Religious educational corporations - trustees

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A corporation formed for the promotion of academic, collegiate, or university education, under religious influences, incorporated under the laws of this state, by special act or otherwise, may avail itself of section 1713.22 of the Revised Code, as a part of its articles or certi…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.24 Sale and distribution of property of certain corporations

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The trustees of a university, college, or other institution of learning, incorporated by authority of this state under special charter, and which is owned in shares or stock subscribed or taken, may dispose of its property at public sale, on such terms as to payment as the stockh…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.25 Institutions may change name or purpose

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The board of trustees of an institution of learning incorporated under the authority of this state for the sole purpose of promoting education, religion and morality, or the fine arts, at a regular or special meeting of such board called for that purpose, after thirty days' actua…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.26 Procedure and effect

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When the amendment referred to in section 1713.25 of the Revised Code is adopted by the board of trustees, a copy thereof with a certificate thereto affixed, signed by any authorized officer of such board and sealed with the corporate seal, stating the fact and date of such amend…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.27 Fees of secretary of state

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For recording the amendment referred to in section 1713.25 of the Revised Code and furnishing certified copies thereof, the secretary of state shall receive a fee of twenty cents per hundred words, to be in no case less than five dollars.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.28 Organic rules may be prescribed in articles of certain corporations

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An association incorporated for the purpose of receiving gifts, devises, or trust funds to erect, establish, or maintain an academy in any department of fine arts, a gallery for the exhibition of paintings, sculpture, or works of art, a museum of natural or other curiosities or s…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.29 Accounts of receipts and disbursements

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The officers of a corporation referred to in section 1713.28 of the Revised Code, charged or entrusted with the receipts and disbursements of its funds or property, shall make and keep accurate and detailed accounts of such funds, and the receipts and disbursements thereof such a…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.30 Trustees ineligible to other office

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No trustee of a corporation referred to in section 1713.28 of the Revised Code, shall be eligible to any office or agency of the corporation to which a salary or emolument is attached, nor shall the trustees be allowed any salary, emoluments, or perquisites, except the right of f…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.31 Attorney general may enforce duties of officers

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On application in writing to the attorney general by five citizens of the proper county, verified by the oath or affirmation of one of them, setting forth specific charges against any of the fiscal or other agents or trustees of a corporation referred to in section 1713.28 of the…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.32 Mechanics' institute may borrow money

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A mechanics' institute incorporated under the laws of this state prior to 1851 may borrow money, issue bonds or notes therefor at no more than the legal rate of interest, and secure them by mortgage upon its real estate.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.33 Liability of directors and trustees

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The directors and trustees of an institute referred to in section 1713.32 of the Revised Code, are not personally liable for debts permitted to be contracted by such section.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.34 Medical colleges or embalming board may receive bodies for study or dissection - procedure

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Superintendents of city hospitals, directors or superintendents of city infirmaries, county homes, or other charitable institutions, directors or superintendents of workhouses, founded and supported in whole or in part at public expense, superintendents or managing officers of st…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.35 Body to be delivered to claimant

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If the body of a deceased person delivered as provided in section 1713.34 of the Revised Code, is subsequently claimed in writing by a relative or other person for private interment at his own expense, it shall be given up to such claimant.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.36 Interment of body or ashes after study or dissection

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After the bodies referred to in section 1713.34 of the Revised Code have been subjected to medical or surgical examination or dissection or for the study of embalming, the remains thereof shall be interred, or shall be cremated and the ashes interred, in some suitable place at th…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.37 Notification of relatives

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In all cases the officer having a body referred to in section 1713.34 of the Revised Code under his control must notify in writing the relatives of the deceased person.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.38 Bodies of strangers or travelers

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The bodies of strangers or travelers, who die in any of the institutions named in section 1713.34 of the Revised Code, shall not be delivered for the purpose of dissection unless the stranger or traveler belongs to that class commonly known as tramps. Bodies delivered as provided…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.39 Liability for having unlawful possession of body

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A person, association, or company, having unlawful possession of the body of a deceased person shall be jointly and severally liable with any other persons, associations, and companies that have had unlawful possession of such body, in any sum not less than five hundred nor more …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.40 Prohibition against detention of corpse

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No person shall detain a corpse claimed by relatives or friends for interment at their expense.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.41 Prohibition against refusal to deliver corpse

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No superintendent of a city hospital, city infirmary, county home, workhouse, hospital for persons with mental illnesses, or other charitable institution founded and supported in whole or in part at public expense, coroner, infirmary director, sheriff, or township trustee, shall …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.42 Prohibition against unlawful possession of corpse

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No person shall be in possession of a corpse for the purpose of medical, surgical, or anatomical study, except as provided by law.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.50 Private college or university may establish campus police department

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(A) As used in this section:(1) "Political subdivision" means a county, municipal corporation, or township.(2) "Private college or university" means a college or university that has all of the following characteristics:(a) It is not owned or controlled by the state or any politic…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.55 Meningitis and hepatitis B vaccination

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(A) As used in this section:(1) "Nonprofit institution of higher education" or "institution" means a nonprofit college, university, or other institution that offers instruction in the arts and sciences, business administration, engineering, philosophy, literature, fine arts, law,…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.60 Military leave of absence for student on active duty

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As used in this section, "active duty" means full-time duty in the active military service of the United States, including full-time training duty, annual training duty, and active state duty for members of the national guard.(A) Each institution of higher education that holds a …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.99 Penalty

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(A) Whoever violates section 1713.40, 1713.41, or 1713.42 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months.