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Ohio Rev Code § 1746.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1746 | Business Trusts|Section 1746.13 | Liability to Third Persons - Insurance.

Effective: March 18, 1983|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 435 - 114th General Assembly|(A) Liability to third persons for any act, omission, or obligation of a business trust that has made the filings described in section 1746.04 of the Revised Code or a trustee or trustees of a business trust when acting in such capacity, shall extend to the whole of the trust estate held by such trustee or trustees, or so much thereof as may be necessary to discharge such liability, but no such liability shall attach to the trustees, officers, employees, agents, or the holders of the shares of beneficial interest in such business trust for any such act, omission, or obligation.(B) A business trust that has made the filings described in section 1746.04 of the Revised Code may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a trustee, officer, employee, shareholder, or agent of the business trust, or is or was serving at the request of the business trust as a director, trustee, officer, employee, or agent of another business trust, corporation, domestic or foreign, nonprofit or for profit, partnership, joint venture, trust, or other enterprise against any liability asserted against him and incurred by him in any such capacity, or arising out of his status as such, whether or not the trust instrument of the business trust contains provisions for indemnification of such person against such liability by the business trust.(C) The trust estate of a business trust that has made the filings described in section 1746.04 of the Revised Code is not liable for any act, omission, or obligation of either of the following:(1) Any holder of its shares of beneficial interest;(2) Any trustee when not acting in such capacity.
Ohio Rev Code § 1746.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1746 | Business Trusts|Section 1746.14 | Perpetual Period of Existence.

Effective: March 18, 1983|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 435 - 114th General Assembly|Unless otherwise stated in the trust instrument, a business trust that has made the filings described in section 1746.04 of the Revised Code has a perpetual period of existence and is not affected by any rule against perpetuities. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed or interpreted to limit, prohibit, or invalidate any provision of a trust instrument providing that such business trust may be terminated at any time by action of the trustees or by the vote of a specified percentage in interest of the beneficial owners thereof.
Ohio Rev Code § 1746.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1746 | Business Trusts|Section 1746.15 | Withdrawal From State.

Effective: June 6, 2001|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 94 - 124th General Assembly|Any business trust that has made the filings described in section 1746.04 of the Revised Code may withdraw from this state at any time by filing in the office of the secretary of state a verified copy of a resolution duly adopted by its trustees declaring its intention to withdraw and surrender its authority, accompanied by the fee specified in division (T) of section 111.16 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 1746.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1746 | Business Trusts|Section 1746.16 | Forfeiture for Violation of Chapter.

Effective: March 18, 1983|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 435 - 114th General Assembly|(A) Any business trust that transacts business in this state in violation of this chapter shall forfeit not less than one thousand nor more than ten thousand dollars. Such forfeiture shall be recovered in an action in the name of the state brought in the court of common pleas of Franklin county, or in the court of common pleas of any county in which the business trust has transacted business or has property or a place of business, by the attorney general or the prosecuting attorney. If such action is brought by the attorney general, such forfeiture shall on collection be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund. If brought by the prosecuting attorney, one-half of such forfeiture shall on collection be paid to the treasurer of the county in which action was brought and one-half shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund. In addition to such forfeiture, the court shall render a judgment that the business trust pay the filing fees required by division (B) of section 1746.04 of the Revised Code, plus interest on the fees at the rate of eight per cent per annum for the time during which the court determines that the business trust transacted business in this state in violation of section 1746.03 of the Revised Code. An action for the recovery of such forfeiture and filing fee shall be brought within five years after the business trust has ceased to transact business in this state.(B) For good cause shown, the secretary of state, with the consent of the attorney general, before or after judgment, or the court in which an action is pending for the collection of a forfeiture, may remit all or part of the forfeiture.
Ohio Rev Code § 1746.17 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1746 | Business Trusts|Section 1746.17 | Validity of Contracts or Titles Not Affected by Violation.

Effective: March 18, 1983|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 435 - 114th General Assembly|(A) The transaction of business in this state by a business trust in violation of this chapter does not affect the validity of any contract with such trust, or the validity of the title to any estate or interest in real or personal property taken, held, or disposed of by such trust. No business trust that has transacted business in violation of this chapter, nor any persons acting on its behalf, shall maintain any action in any court of this state until it has fully complied with this chapter and further paid to the secretary of state a forfeiture of one thousand dollars.(B) Full compliance with this section prior to the bringing of an action to recover a forfeiture under section 1746.16 of the Revised Code constitutes a bar to such action.
Ohio Rev Code § 1746.18 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1746 | Business Trusts|Section 1746.18 | Merger, Consolidation, Sale or Other Disposition of Assets.

Effective: March 18, 1983|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 435 - 114th General Assembly|Any business trust may be a party, with one or more other entities, to an agreement of merger, consolidation, or sale, or other disposition of all or substantially all of its assets, provided that the agreement of merger, consolidation, or sale, or other disposition is approved in the manner set forth in the trust instrument or, if the trust instrument contains no procedure for such approval, by the holders of a majority of the shares of the business trust at a meeting held for such purpose.
Ohio Rev Code § 1746.19 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1746 | Business Trusts|Section 1746.19 | Foreign Business Trusts.

Effective: March 18, 1983|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 435 - 114th General Assembly|Chapter 1746. of the Revised Code is applicable to a foreign business trust that has made the filings described in section 1746.04 of the Revised Code, except to the extent that such provisions may be inconsistent with the applicable laws of the state or jurisdiction under which the foreign business trust was organized.
Ohio Rev Code § 1746.20 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1746 | Business Trusts|Section 1746.20 | False or Fraudulent Filings Prohibited.

Effective: March 18, 1983|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 435 - 114th General Assembly|No person knowingly shall prepare, make, assist in preparing or making, or procure or advise the preparing or making of any false or fraudulent filings required or permitted by sections 1746.01 to 1746.20 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 1746.99 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1746 | Business Trusts|Section 1746.99 | Penalty.

Effective: March 18, 1983|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 435 - 114th General Assembly|Whoever violates section 1746.20 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars.
Ohio Rev Code § 1747.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1747 | Real Estate Investment Trusts|Section 1747.01 | Real Estate Investment Trust Definitions.

Effective: July 17, 1978|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 289 - 112th General Assembly|As used in Chapter 1747. of the Revised Code, unless the context otherwise requires:(A) "Real estate investment trust" means a trust created by an instrument, pursuant to common law or enabling legislation, under which any estate or interest in real property is held, managed, administered, controlled, invested, reinvested, or operated by a trustee or trustees for the benefit and profit of persons who are or may become the holders of transferable certificates of beneficial interest, issued pursuant to the provisions of the trust instrument, such transferability being either restricted or unrestricted, which trust intends to comply or has at any time complied or intended to comply with sections 856, 857, and 858 of the " Interal Revenue Code of 1954," 68A Stat. 3, 26 U.S.C. 1, as now or hereafter amended.(B) "Domestic real estate investment trust" means a real estate investment trust organized in this state.(C) "Foreign real estate investment trust" means a real estate investment trust organized in another state.(D) "State" means the United States, any state, territory, insular possession, or other political subdivision of the United States, including the District of Columbia.(E) "Trust instrument" means the instrument creating a real estate investment trust, including any amendments to it.(F) "To transact real estate business in this state" means to take, hold, or dispose of any estate or interest in real property situated in this state.(G) "Certificate of beneficial interest" means a certificate issued by a real estate investment trust evidencing a beneficial interest in the trust.
Ohio Rev Code § 1747.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1747 | Real Estate Investment Trusts|Section 1747.02 | Compliance With Chapter.

Effective: July 17, 1978|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 289 - 112th General Assembly|No real estate investment trust shall be authorized to transact real estate business in this state unless it fully complies with section 1747.03 of the Revised Code, except that a real estate investment trust that holds an estate or interest in real property in this state on the effective date of this section may continue to transact real estate business in this state if it fully complies with section 1747.03 of the Revised Code within one year after the effective date of this section and may dispose of the estate or interest within one year after the effective date of this section. However, nothing contained in sections 1747.01 to 1747.13 of the Revised Code shall be construed to limit, prohibit, or invalidate the existence, acts, or obligations to the state or any person, of any real estate investment trust with respect to any real estate business or other business it transacted in this state prior to the effective date of this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 1747.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1747 | Real Estate Investment Trusts|Section 1747.04 | Amendment of Trust Instrument.

Effective: June 6, 2001|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 94 - 124th General Assembly|A trust instrument may be amended in the manner specified in it or in any manner that is valid under the common or statutory law applicable to the trust created under it. However, no amendment adopted subsequent to the initial filings required by section 1747.03 of the Revised Code is legally effective in this state until an executed or certified true and correct copy of the amendment has been filed in the office of the secretary of state accompanied by the fee specified in division (T) of section 111.16 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 1747.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1747 | Real Estate Investment Trusts|Section 1747.06 | Interests in Property.

Effective: July 17, 1978|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 289 - 112th General Assembly|(A) A real estate investment trust may take, hold, and dispose of any estate or interest in real property in its business name, or in the name of one or more of its trustees, or in the name of one or more of its nominees. A conveyance to a real estate investment trust in its business name shall recite that the grantee is a real estate investment trust, and the estate or interest so acquired can be conveyed by the trust only in its business name. Any estate or interest in real property taken, held, or disposed of by a real estate investment trust in its business name prior to the effective date of this section is hereby confirmed as if the conveyance thereof had been made pursuant to the authority of this section.(B) The fact that a recorded deed, mortgage, or other conveyance of an estate or interest in real property designates a real estate investment trust or one or more trustees or nominees of a real estate investment trust as the grantee does not give notice to or put upon inquiry any person dealing with the property that there are any limitations on the power of such trust, trustees, or nominees to dispose of or encumber the estate or interest specified in such conveyance, unless such conveyance specifically contains such limitations or incorporates by reference another instrument of record in the same county which specifically contains such limitations. As to all bona fide purchasers and encumbrancers of the property, a conveyance, release, or encumbrance by such trust, trustees, or nominees transfers or releases the estate or interest in the property specified free from the claims of the holders of certificates of beneficial interest in the trust estate and free from any obligation on the part of such purchaser or encumbrancer to see to the application of any purchase money or other consideration.
Ohio Rev Code § 1747.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1747 | Real Estate Investment Trusts|Section 1747.07 | Service of Process.

Effective: July 17, 1978|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 289 - 112th General Assembly|Real estate investment trusts are subject to all applicable provisions of law, rules of procedure, and rules of court, now in effect or hereafter enacted, relating to domestic or foreign corporations, with regard to service of process.
Ohio Rev Code § 1747.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1747 | Real Estate Investment Trusts|Section 1747.08 | Certificate of Beneficial Interest Is Security.

Effective: July 17, 1978|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 289 - 112th General Assembly|A certificate of beneficial interest is a security subject to Chapter 1707. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 1747.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1747 | Real Estate Investment Trusts|Section 1747.09 | Perpetual Period of Existence - Termination.

Effective: July 17, 1978|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 289 - 112th General Assembly|Unless otherwise stated in the trust instrument, a real estate investment trust authorized to transact real estate business in this state has a perpetual period of existence and is not affected by any rule against perpetuities. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed or interpreted to limit, prohibit, or invalidate any provision of a trust instrument providing that such real estate investment trust may be terminated at any time by action of the trustees or by the vote of a specified percentage in interest of the beneficial owners thereof.
Ohio Rev Code § 1747.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1747 | Real Estate Investment Trusts|Section 1747.10 | Surrender of Authority.

Effective: June 6, 2001|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 94 - 124th General Assembly|Any domestic or foreign real estate investment trust authorized to transact real estate business in this state may surrender its authority at any time by filing in the office of the secretary of state a verified copy of a resolution duly adopted by its trustees declaring its intention to withdraw, accompanied by the fee specified in division (T) of section 111.16 of the Revised Code. Such real estate investment trust then ceases and is without authority to transact real estate business in this state, except as necessary for its conclusion.
Ohio Rev Code § 1747.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1747 | Real Estate Investment Trusts|Section 1747.11 | Forfeiture for Transacting Business Without Authority.

Effective: July 17, 1978|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 289 - 112th General Assembly|(A) Any real estate investment trust that transacts real estate business in this state without authority shall forfeit not less that one thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars. Such forfeiture shall be recovered in an action in the name of the state brought in the court of common pleas of Franklin county, or in the court of common pleas of any county in which the trust has transacted real estate business or has property or a place of business, by the attorney general or the prosecuting attorney. If such action is brought by the attorney general, such forfeiture shall on collection be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund. If brought by the prosecuting attorney, one-half of such forfeiture shall on collection be paid to the treasurer of the county in which action was brought and one-half shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund. In addition to such forfeiture, the court shall render a judgment that the trust pay the filing fees required by division (B) of section 1747.03 of the Revised Code, plus interest on the fees at the rate of six per cent per annum for the time during which the court determines that the trust transacted real estate business in this state in violation of section 1747.02 of the Revised Code. An action for the recovery of such forfeiture and filing fee shall be brought within five years after the real estate investment trust has ceased to transact real estate business in this state.(B) For good cause shown, the secretary of state, with the consent of the attorney general, before or after judgment, or the court in which an action is pending for the collection of a forfeiture, may remit all or part of the forfeiture.(C) This section does not apply to any real estate investment trust that either:(1) Holds an estate or interest in real property in this state on the effective date of this section and transacts business after that effective date, if the real estate investment trust complies with section 1743.03 of the Revised Code within one year after the effective date of this section;(2) Holds an estate or interest in real property in this state on the effective date of this section, if it disposes of the estate or interest within one year after the effective date of this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 1747.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1747 | Real Estate Investment Trusts|Section 1747.12 | Violation Effects.

Effective: July 17, 1978|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 289 - 112th General Assembly|(A) The failure of any real estate investment trust to be authorized to transact real estate business in this state does not affect the validity of any contract with such trust, or the validity of the title to any estate or interest in real property taken, held, or disposed of by such trust. No real estate investment trust that should have been so authorized, nor any persons on its behalf shall maintain any action in any court of this state until it has obtained such authority by filing with the secretary of state as required by division (B) or (C) of this section, paying the fee associated with the filing, and further paying to the secretary of state a forfeiture of one thousand dollars.(B) If such real estate investment trust has not been previously authorized to transact real estate business in this state or if its authority has been surrendered, it shall make the filings specified in divisions (A)(1) to (7) of section 1747.03 of the Revised Code and pay the specified fee for the filing.(C) If such real estate investment trust has been previously authorized to transact real estate business in this state and its authority has expired for failure to make the filings required by division (A)(8) of section 1747.03 of the Revised Code, it shall make such filings, and pay the specified fee for the filings.(D) Full compliance with this section prior to the bringing of an action to recover a forfeiture under section 1747.11 of the Revised Code constitutes a bar to such action.
Ohio Rev Code § 1747.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1747 | Real Estate Investment Trusts|Section 1747.13 | False or Fraudulent Filings Prohibited.

Effective: July 17, 1978|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 289 - 112th General Assembly|No person knowingly shall prepare, make, assist in preparing or making, or procure or advise the preparing or making of any false or fraudulent filings required or permitted by sections 1747.01 to 1747.13 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 1747.99 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1747 | Real Estate Investment Trusts|Section 1747.99 | Penalty.

Effective: July 17, 1978|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 289 - 112th General Assembly|Whoever violates section 1747.13 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars.
Ohio Rev Code § 1751.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1751 | Health Insuring Corporation Law|Section 1751.07 | Responsibility for Funds.

Effective: June 4, 1997|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 67 - 122nd General Assembly|Any trustee, director, officer, or employee of a health insuring corporation who receives, collects, disburses, or invests funds in connection with the activities of the health insuring corporation shall be responsible for such funds in a fiduciary relationship to the corporation.
Ohio Rev Code § 1751.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1751 | Health Insuring Corporation Law|Section 1751.08 | Inapplicability of Insurance Laws.

Effective: June 4, 1997|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 67 - 122nd General Assembly|(A) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter or Title XXXIX of the Revised Code, provisions of Title XXXIX of the Revised Code shall not be applicable to any health insuring corporation holding a certificate of authority under this chapter. This division shall not apply to an insurer licensed and regulated pursuant to Title XXXIX of the Revised Code except with respect to its health insuring corporation activities authorized and regulated pursuant to this chapter.(B) For the purpose of clarifying jurisdiction under the "Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978," 92 Stat. 2549, 11 U.S.C.A. 101, and in recognition of the right of this state to regulate domestic insurance companies under the "McCarran-Ferguson Act," 59 Stat. 33 (1945), 15 U.S.C.A. 1011, a health insuring corporation is deemed to be a domestic insurance company.(C) Solicitation of enrollees by a health insuring corporation holding a certificate of authority under this chapter, or its representatives, shall not be construed to violate any provision of law relating to solicitation or advertising by health professionals.(D) Any health insuring corporation holding a certificate of authority under this chapter shall not be considered to be practicing medicine.