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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.13 | Trustees to Be Divided Into Classes - President Ex-Officio Member - Limitations and Designations.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
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 its meetings such board shall divide its number, not including such president, into classes, making one class for each conference or religious body at the time patronizing such university or college, one class for the alumni of such university or college, and one class of trustees at large. No class shall have more than ten members. Each conference or other religious body patronizing such university shall have the same number of trustees. The board may designate the number of trustees to be assigned to the alumni association and to the class of trustees at large, but the combined number of trustees apportioned to said patronizing conferences of other religious bodies shall constitute a majority of the entire board, not including the president.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.14 | Term of Office of Trustees - Vacancies.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
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 established. The term of office of an equal number of trustees in each class, as near as is possible, shall expire each year. Vacancies which occur in any class of trustees in any manner except by expiration of time shall be filled only for the remainder of the term, but the term of office of a trustee shall not expire during any meeting of the board of trustees which does not continue for more than two weeks.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.15 | Term of Trustees - Expiration - Members - Vacancies.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
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 trustees referred to in section 1713.13 of the Revised Code may be four years. The term of office of an equal number of trustees in each class, as near as is possible, shall expire biennially. None of the classes into which the board of trustees divides its number, in the manner provided in section 1713.13 of the Revised Code, shall have more than thirty members. Vacancies which occur in any class of trustees in any manner, except by expiration of time, shall be filled only for the remainder of the term, but the term of office of a trustee shall not expire during any meeting of the board which does not continue for more than two weeks.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.16 | Reclassification and Reapportionment of Trustees.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
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 bodies by an equal reduction of the number in each such class when a new conference or other religious body becomes a patronizing body and by an equal increase of the number in each such class when a conference or other religious body ceases to be a patronizing body. Whenever, by reason of a change in the number of patronizing conferences or religious bodies, it becomes necessary to reclassify the trustees in said board, and whenever said board deems it proper, for any other reason, to increase or decrease its total membership within the limits established by section 1713.13 of the Revised Code, the board, a lawful quorum being present, shall by appropriate resolution designate the number of trustees apportioned to each class and certify such apportionment to each patronizing conference or other religious body and to such alumni association, and all vacancies in such class thereafter shall be filled in accordance with such apportionment.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.17 | Alumni Association May Elect One Fifth of Board.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
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 alumni trustees assigned or apportioned to said alumni association by the board. Such class shall constitute not less than one fifth of the entire board, not including the president. This election shall be held under such regulations as the alumni association prescribes, and the result shall be certified by the proper officials of the alumni association to the board and entered upon the records of said board. Such board composed of alumni trustees and trustees elected by patronizing conferences or other religious bodies, as provided in sections 1713.13 to 1713.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may increase its own numbers by the election of a class of trustees at large, the number of which class shall be fixed by said board, under the limitations fixed by sections 1713.13 and 1713.17 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.18 | Presiding Head of Conference May Be Trustee - Life Trustees.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
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 trustees, make the bishop, or the presiding head by whatever name called, of the area included in the conference or conferences under whose patronage the university or college is operating, ex officio, a trustee and a member of its board, with the same effect as the president of said university or college occupies as a trustee, with the complete right to vote, to participate in discussions, and to serve on committees. The presence of said bishop or the head as a member of the board shall not affect in any way the classifications, divisions, or allotments of the board into classes, and, like the president of the university, the bishop or head of the area shall not be included in the designation of said classes, or as a member of any class, or in determining the total per cent of the trustees to be allotted to the patronizing conferences.
The board may, by appropriate resolution, create and elect life trustees, whose total number at any one time shall never exceed ten, and who shall not have the power to vote but who shall have the right to be present at all meetings of the board and to participate in all of its discussions, and, without vote but with the right for discussion, to serve on any committee. The creation and election of such life trustees shall in no way modify the rules or the laws applicable to the creation of classes of trustees in such university or college, or to the numbers allotted to each class, or to the total per cent of the trustees to be elected by the patronizing conference or conferences.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.19 | Conference May Become a Patron.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
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 shall be evidenced by the adoption of an appropriate resolution and certification of the same to the board, and such certified resolution shall be entered upon the minutes of the board thereby completing the right of such conference or religious body to act as a patronizing body.
Last updated February 25, 2022 at 2:29 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.20 | Quorum of Trustees.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
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 shall constitute a quorum.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.21 | Termination of Right of Representation.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
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 cease, and the board shall apportion or distribute the number of trustees in such class to the remaining patronizing conferences or other religious bodies in order to maintain, as nearly as possible, the established number of trustees, and equality of representation from each patronizing body.
Before a conference or other religious body represented in the board of such university or college shall cease to be represented, the board shall declare and enter in the record of its proceedings that the conditions terminating such representation have taken place.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.22 | Colleges Under Ecclesiastical Patronage.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
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 is to be connected, and may grant any ecclesiastical body of such religious sect, association, or denomination, whether it is a conference, association, presbytery, synod, general assembly, convocation, or otherwise, the right to appoint its trustees or directors, or any number thereof. Such corporation may set forth in its articles or certificate such other rights as to the administration of the purpose for which it is organized, consistent with the laws of this state and of the United States, which the corporation desires to confer upon the ecclesiastical body of such sect, association, or denomination; and that body may exercise all rights and powers set forth therein.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.23 | Religious Educational Corporations - Trustees.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
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 certificate of incorporation, and may confer on an ecclesiastical body of such religious sect, association, or denomination, which it is or proposes to be connected with, whether it is a conference, association, presbytery, synod, general assembly, convocation, or otherwise, all of the rights, powers, or privileges allowed to be conferred by such section on corporations organized under such section, and may accept the provisions of such section by a vote of the majority of its trustees at any regular meeting.
When so accepted, a copy of the acceptance, certified by the secretary or clerk of its board of trustees or directors, shall be sent to the ecclesiastical body with which it is or proposes to be connected. If such body agrees to accept the powers proposed to be conferred upon it, it shall certify its approval upon the certified copy, and the certified copy thereupon shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state. When thus filed it will be a part of the charter of such corporation, and such ecclesiastical body shall exercise all the rights and powers set forth in the articles or certificate of incorporation.
After such acceptance the board shall certify it to the patronizing conference or other religious body having the right to elect or appoint trustees of such university or other institution of learning, at the next meeting of such conference or other religious body. Thereafter the board shall consist of twenty-one trustees elected or appointed, and the president of such university or other institution of learning, who shall be ex officio a member thereof. Such elected or appointed trustees shall be divided into three classes of seven members each.
At the first election or appointment after such acceptance, one of such classes shall be elected or appointed for one year, one for two years, and one for three years. In subsequent elections or appointments each of the classes of trustees shall be elected or appointed for three years. No term of office of such a trustee shall expire during a meeting of the board which does not continue more than two weeks. Ten members of the board shall constitute a quorum. Vacancies which occur in any class of trustees otherwise than by expiration of the term of office shall be filled only for the remainder of the term.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.24 | Sale and Distribution of Property of Certain Corporations.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
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 stockholders by a vote of three fourths of the shares or stock of the institution direct after giving public notice thereof by publication for six consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in the county where the institution is located. Such notice shall contain a full statement of the terms, time, and place of sale, and such action of the trustees. The trustees may wind up the corporate existence of such institution, and make an equitable division and distribution of the proceeds of the sale among all the holders of shares or stock, after the payment of its just debts.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.25 | Institutions May Change Name or Purpose.

Effective:
September 29, 2015
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
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' actual notice to each trustee, may change the name and enlarge the purposes and objects of such institution of learning, by amendment to its charter, approved by a majority of the board.
No institution as defined in section 1713.01 of the Revised Code or school that holds a certificate of registration issued by the state board of career colleges and schools pursuant to division (C) of section 3332.05 of the Revised Code, that has been issued a certificate of authorization by the chancellor of higher education shall change the purposes of the institution without giving written notice to the chancellor, who shall issue an amended certificate of authorization to the institution or school upon receipt of such notice.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.26 | Procedure and Effect.

Effective:
October 4, 1996
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 495 - 121st General Assembly
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 amendment, and that such copy is a true copy of the original amendment, shall be filed and recorded in the office of the secretary of state. When so filed and recorded such amendment shall be an integral part of the articles of incorporation of such corporation. The property, real and personal, corporate powers and franchise, endowment funds, gifts, bequests, legacies, mortgage securities, and promissory notes, belonging to such original corporation, by such amendment shall pass to, and be enjoyed and exercised by the corporation created and organized by such amendment for the promotion of the objects of its creation and organization. Such new corporation shall be liable for and must perform all the lawful obligations and contracts of the original corporation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.27 | Fees of Secretary of State.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
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.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.28 | Organic Rules May Be Prescribed in Articles of Certain Corporations.

Effective:
October 25, 1978
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 349 - 112th General Assembly
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 specimens of art or nature promotive of knowledge, a law or other library, courses of lectures upon science, art, philosophy, natural history, or law, and to open them to the public on reasonable terms, an industrial training school or a mechanics' institute for advancing the best interest of mechanics, manufacturers, and artisans by the more general diffusion of useful knowledge in those classes of the community, or homes for indigent and aged persons and unmarried persons, whose directors or trustees may be of either sex, may prescribe in its articles of incorporation the tenure of office of the trustees or directors, the mode of appointing or electing successors, the administration and management of the property, trust, and other funds of the corporation, and such other organic rules as are deemed expedient or acceptable to donors, which shall be the permanent organic law of the corporation.
By certificate duly acknowledged by the trustees or directors and filed in the office of the secretary of state, such association may add to the original objects and purposes thereof any of the objects and purposes mentioned in this section and not provided for by the articles of incorporation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.29 | Accounts of Receipts and Disbursements.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
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 as are required to be kept by the fund commissioners of the state. On or before the third Monday in January of each year the trustees shall file with the clerk of the court of common pleas of the county in which the corporation is located an abstract of their account which shall correspond in date, amount, person to whom paid, from whom received, and on what account, with the vouchers taken or given on account of such receipts and disbursements. At the same time they annually shall file in such clerk's office a report of the names of the donors, the kind, amount, or value of gifts of each, and a brief statement of the conditions and purposes of the gifts. The filing of such abstract and report and the supplying of any omission in either may be enforced by order and attachment of the court against the trustees on motion of any respectable citizen.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.30 | Trustees Ineligible to Other Office.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
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 free ingress to the grounds, rooms, and buildings of the corporation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.31 | Attorney General May Enforce Duties of Officers.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
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 Revised Code involving a breach of trust or duty, the attorney general shall give notice thereof to the trustees or agents complained of, and inquire into the truth of such charges. For this purpose he may receive affidavits or enforce, by process from the court of common pleas of Franklin county, the production of papers and the attendance of witnesses before him. If, on testimony or other evidence, he believes any of the charges to be true, he shall proceed by action in that court, in the name of the state, against the delinquent trustees, or fiscal agents, and, on the hearing the court may direct the performance of any duty or the removal of any agents or trustees, and decree such other and further relief as is equitable.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.32 | Mechanics' Institute May Borrow Money.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
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.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.33 | Liability of Directors and Trustees.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
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.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.34 | Medical Colleges or Embalming Board May Receive Bodies for Study or Dissection - Procedure.

Effective:
April 7, 2009
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 130 - 127th General Assembly
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 state benevolent institutions, boards of township trustees, sheriffs, or coroners, in possession of bodies not claimed or identified, or which must be buried at the expense of the state, county, or township, before burial, shall notify the professor of anatomy in a college which by its charter is empowered to teach anatomy, or the secretary of the board of embalmers and funeral directors of this state, of the fact that such bodies are being so held. If after a period of thirty-six hours the body has not been accepted by friends or relatives for burial at their expense, such superintendent, director, or other officer, on the written application of such professor, or the secretary of the board of embalmers and funeral directors, shall deliver to such professor or secretary, for the purpose of medical or surgical study or dissection or for the study of embalming, the body of any such person who died in any of such institutions from any disease which is not infectious. The expense of the delivery of the body shall be borne by the parties in whose keeping the body was placed.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.35 | Body to Be Delivered to Claimant.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
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.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.36 | Interment of Body or Ashes After Study or Dissection.

Effective:
June 23, 1981
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 54 - 114th General Assembly
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 the expense of the parties in whose keeping the corpse was placed.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.37 | Notification of Relatives.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
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.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.38 | Bodies of Strangers or Travelers.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
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 in such section shall be used for medical, surgical, and anatomical study only, and within this state.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.39 | Liability for Having Unlawful Possession of Body.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
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 than five thousand dollars, to be recovered at the suit of the personal representative of the deceased in any court of competent jurisdiction, for the benefit of the next of kin of the deceased.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.41 | Prohibition Against Refusal to Deliver Corpse.

Effective:
April 6, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 281 - 134th General Assembly
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 fail to deliver a body of a deceased person when applied for, in conformity to law, or charge, receive, or accept money or other valuable consideration for the delivery.
This section does not require the delivery of the body until twenty-four hours after death.
Last updated March 10, 2023 at 11:07 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.42 | Prohibition Against Unlawful Possession of Corpse.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
No person shall be in possession of a corpse for the purpose of medical, surgical, or anatomical study, except as provided by law.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.55 | Meningitis and Hepatitis B Vaccination.

Effective:
July 14, 2004
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 142 - 125th General Assembly
(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, medicine, nursing, social work, theology, and other recognized academic and professional fields of study, and awards degrees for fulfilling requirements of academic work beyond high school.
(2) "On-campus student housing" means a dormitory or other student residence that is owned or operated by or located on the campus of a nonprofit institution of higher education.
(3) "Parent" means either parent, except that if one parent has sole custody, "parent" means the parent with custody. "Parent" also includes a guardian or, in the absence of a parent or guardian, another person who has accepted responsibility for the care of the student.
(B) Beginning with the academic year that commences on or after July 1, 2005, a nonprofit institution of higher education shall not permit a student to reside in on-campus student housing unless the student, or, if the student is younger than eighteen years of age, the student's parent, discloses to the institution whether the student has been vaccinated against meningococcal meningitis and hepatitis B by submitting to the institution the meningitis and hepatitis B vaccination status statement described in division (B) of section 3701.133 of the Revised Code or a meningitis status statement form provided by the institution that meets the requirements of division (B) of section 3701.133 of the Revised Code. The statement may be submitted in written form or, if the institution has a secure web site, in electronic form.
(C) On receipt of an application for residence in on-campus student housing, a nonprofit institution of higher education shall do both of the following:
(1) Inform the student of the disclosure requirement;
(2) Provide the student in either written or, if the school has a secure web site, electronic form the meningitis and hepatitis B vaccination status statement described in division (B) of section 3701.133 of the Revised Code or a meningitis status statement form provided by the institution that meets the requirements of division (B) of section 3701.133 of the Revised Code.
(D) This section does not require an institution to provide or pay for a meningococcal meningitis or hepatitis B vaccination for any student.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1713 | Educational Corporations › Section 1713.99 | Penalty.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
(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.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.01 | Change in Language of Church Service.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any religious society incorporated in this state, if the act of incorporation prescribes that its public religious services shall be conducted in any language other than English, may decide, by a vote of a majority of its adult members in good and regular standing who speak such prescribed language, whether its public religious services shall be conducted in any other language.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.02 | Sale of Cemetery Grounds No Longer Usable.

Effective:
October 7, 1977
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 42 - 112th General Assembly
When a religious or educational corporation or society holds lands within the limits of a municipal corporation which have been used as a cemetery, and interments in such lands have been prohibited by the ordinances of such municipal corporation, the trustees, wardens, vestry, or other officers entrusted with the management of the property of such corporation or society may file a petition in the court of common pleas of the county where such property is situated, setting forth a description of such property, the existence of such ordinance, and the names of all persons holding burial privileges in such cemetery, so far as known to the petitioners. If such privileges are held by persons whose names are unknown to such petitioners, the petition must also include the facts as to such privileges, and requests for the court's determination of their value, for its direction as to the removal of the bodies interred in such cemetery to other cemeteries, and for an order to sell such property free from burial privileges.
Notice of the filing of such petition shall be given by publication in some newspaper published in and of general circulation in the county where it is filed, for four consecutive weeks, setting forth the object and prayer of the petition, and that any persons claiming an interest in its subject matter or claiming burial privileges in such cemetery may appear and file an answer to such petition within six weeks from the date of the first publication of such notice. After said six weeks have elapsed, the case will stand for hearing.
Upon final hearing of the case, the court, with or without the aid of a jury, as the parties appearing elect, shall determine the value of such burial privileges, and shall order the corporation or society to pay any amount so ascertained to the holder of such privilege. The court may also order the cemetery property sold free from such burial privileges, and may direct a subdivision of it into lots for the purpose of sale. The court shall direct the application of the money arising from such sale to such uses, by such corporation or society, for pious or educational purposes, as its trustees, wardens, vestry, or other officers conceive to be most for its interest. Such sale shall not be made until the bodies interred in the grounds to be sold are removed to other cemeteries, as directed by the court on the final hearing of the case.
A holder of a burial privilege who did not appear in such proceeding, and who has not waived his right to receive compensation for it, may assert his right to receive such compensation from such society or corporation within five years after the final entry of such proceeding.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.03 | Transfer of Cemetery Land to Cemetery Association.

Effective:
October 7, 1977
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 42 - 112th General Assembly
When a religious or benevolent society or association owning real estate used or occupied as a burial place, the title to which real estate is vested in such society or association, or the trustees thereof, desires to transfer such real estate to a cemetery association incorporated under any law of this state, the trustees or other officers entrusted with the management of the affairs of such society or association may file, in the court of common pleas of the county in which such real estate is situated, a petition stating how and by whom the title to such real estate is held and that such society or association desires to make such transfer, and asking for an order therefor.
Notice of the filing of such petition shall be given by publication, in some newspaper published in and of general circulation in the county where it is filed, for four consecutive weeks, setting forth the object and prayer of the petition and that persons claiming an interest in the subject matter thereof may appear and file an answer thereto within six weeks from the first publication of such notice.
At the expiration of such six weeks the case will stand for hearing, and if the court is satisfied that such transfer is desired by the members of such society or association, it may authorize the trustees or other officers thereof to make a deed therefor to such cemetery association. Such association shall assume all legal debts against the real estate so transferred.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.04 | Conveyance of Burying Ground to Township.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
When a public burying ground is located on or near a township line and is used by the people of two or more townships for burial purposes, and the title thereto is vested in a religious or benevolent society, such society or the trustees thereof, may convey such burying ground to the boards of township trustees of such townships and their successors in office, jointly; and such boards shall accept it, jointly take possession of it, and keep it in repair, as required as to public burial grounds in and belonging to the respective townships. Each such township shall bear an equal share of the expenses of such repair, and the board of township trustees of each such township shall levy, for such purpose, taxes amounting to not more in any one year than one fourth of one per cent.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.05 | Disposition of Unused Real Estate.

Effective:
October 7, 1977
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 42 - 112th General Assembly
When the title to real estate is vested in trustees for the use of churches or congregations of churches, and owing to its peculiar situation or to the nature of the trust or conditions upon which it is held, such real estate for twenty years has not been claimed by or appropriated to the use of churches or congregations as originally contemplated and such trustees are in doubt as to what disposition to make of it, or when any public church site and meetinghouse has been abandoned by the public as a place of worship and the trustees invested with the title to such property have sold it and are in doubt as to what disposition to make of the proceeds, such trustees may file a petition in the court of common pleas of the county where the property is situated, setting forth all the facts in the case and asking such court's direction as to the proper disposition of such property or proceeds.
Notice of the filing of such petition must be given by publication, in some newspaper published in and of general circulation in the county where it is filed, for four consecutive weeks, setting forth the object and prayer of the petition and that a person, church, or congregation claiming an interest in the subject matter thereof may appear and file an answer thereto.
On final hearing of the case the court shall make such order or decree as will best secure the rights of the churches, congregation, or persons having an interest in such property or proceeds and as will best promote the interests of religion, conforming as nearly as possible to the nature and terms of the original trust or purpose with which such property or proceeds were charged, and shall tax the costs of the proceeding as justice requires.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.06 | Trustees of Church Site May Convey It to Church.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
When real estate has been purchased by or conveyed to trustees for the use of churches or congregations, as sites for meetinghouses, and such churches or congregations have erected houses of worship thereon, but no power is possessed by such trustees to convey such real estate to such churches or congregations, or to the trustees thereof, such trustees may convey such improved sites to the trustees of such churches or congregations.
When an incorporated religious congregation, society, association, sect, or denomination uses or occupies for a place of worship, real estate which is held in trust for it or the members thereof, for a place of worship, and a judgment is recovered against it, the real estate together with such edifice and improvements thereon, by a civil action for that purpose, shall be subjected to the payment of such judgment and costs.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.07 | Ecclesiastical Society May Transfer Property to Church.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
An ecclesiastical society incorporated under the laws of this state connected with a church of Christ located in this state may, by a three-fourths vote of its adult members present and voting at a meeting announced and held for that purpose, assign and transfer to the church with which it is connected, if such church is incorporated under the laws of this state, all the property and trust funds of such society, to be held by such church under the trusts upon which it had been held by such society. Pursuant to such vote, the governing committee or trustees of the society may make all conveyances necessary to complete such assignment and transfer. The assignment and transfer shall not be effectual until a certificate of the fact of such assignment and transfer is filed in the office of the secretary of state and in the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas of the county in which the property is located.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.08 | Consolidation of Churches Having Same Form of Faith.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
When two or more religious societies, churches, or associations recognizing the same ecclesiastical jurisdiction, form of faith, government, order, and discipline, and incorporated in this state, desire to be consolidated or united as a single corporation, the elders, trustees, deacons, directors, or other known and legal representatives of such societies, churches, or associations may enter into an agreement for such union or consolidation and prescribe the terms thereof; the corporate name of such united society, church, or association; the time and place for the first meeting of the new corporation; and the number of members of each separate branch or organization to be chosen as directors, trustees, elders, or other officers for the new body. Such officers of the new body shall succeed to the rights, trusts, duties, and obligations of those officers who, in the separate organizations, held in trust the real and personal estate of such separate churches, societies, or associations, and shall hold such other estates as they deem necessary to complete the new corporation.
No such agreement shall be valid until it has been submitted to a separate meeting of the members of each component organization, of which notice has been given according to the form and usage for calling meetings of such component organization, and ratified by a two-thirds vote of all present at such meeting in person or by proxy and entitled to vote according to the laws, regulations, or usages of such component organization.
When the agreement has been ratified by each church, society, or association which is a party to the proposed united organization, the clerk or secretary of each meeting shall certify the record of its proceedings and deliver such record to the clerk or secretary of the first meeting of the united organization.
If, at the first meeting of the united organization, the proceedings and acts of the several component organizations are submitted to and approved by it, and a board of trustees, directors, or other officers are chosen in accordance with the terms of the agreement for union or consolidation, the clerk or secretary of such meeting shall certify such agreement and file it in the office of the secretary of state, whereupon the several churches, societies, or associations which are parties thereto shall become one corporation.
Such new corporation, with its officers and chosen representatives, shall succeed to and be invested with all the right, title, and interest in every species of property, and all the rights, privileges, and franchises, of each of the churches, societies, or associations which are parties to the agreement for union or consolidation, without any other act, conveyance, or transfer; and such new corporation shall be subject to all the liabilities and obligations of the component organizations.