(A) As used in this section:

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Terms Used In Ohio Code 1349.04

  • Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • United States: includes all the states. See Ohio Code 1.59

(1) “Active duty” means active duty pursuant to an executive order of the president of the United States, an act of the congress of the United States, or section 5919.29 or 5923.21 of the Revised Code.

(2) “Immediate family” means a person‘s spouse residing in the person’s household; brothers and sisters of the whole or half blood; children, including adopted children and stepchildren; parents; and grandparents.

(B) The attorney general shall appoint a member of the staff of the consumer protection division of the attorney general’s office to expedite cases or issues raised by a person, or the immediate family of the person, who is deployed on active duty, which cases or issues raised relate to section 317.322, 1343.031, 1349.02, 1349.03, 1713.60, 1923.062, 3313.64, 3332.20, 3345.53, 3915.053, 4933.12, or 4933.121 of the Revised Code or to any other relevant section of the Revised Code regulating consumer protection.