Terms Used In Ohio Code > Chapter 117 - Auditor of State

• Acquisition or construction: includes the undertaking of a voluntary action. See Ohio Code 6123.01
• Acquittal:
  1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
  2. A verdict of "not guilty."
   
• Active duty: means full-time duty in the active military service of the United States or active duty pursuant to an executive order of the president of the United States, an act of the congress of the United States, or a proclamation of the governor. See Ohio Code 5906.01
• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• Advisor: means a person to whom both of the following apply:

  (a) The person satisfies the eligibility criteria specified in division (A) of section 5816. See Ohio Code 5816.02

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• agriculture: includes farming; ranching; aquaculture; algaculture meaning the farming of algae; apiculture and related apicultural activities, production of honey, beeswax, honeycomb, and other related products; horticulture; viticulture, winemaking, and related activities; animal husbandry, including, but not limited to, the care and raising of livestock, equine, and fur-bearing animals; poultry husbandry and the production of poultry and poultry products; dairy production; the production of field crops, tobacco, fruits, vegetables, nursery stock, ornamental shrubs, ornamental trees, flowers, sod, or mushrooms; timber; pasturage; any combination of the foregoing; the processing, drying, storage, and marketing of agricultural products when those activities are conducted in conjunction with, but are secondary to, such husbandry or production; and any additions or modifications to the foregoing made by the director of agriculture by rule adopted in accordance with Chapter 119 of the Revised Code. See Ohio Code 1.61
• Agronomic benefit: means any process that promotes or enhances plant growth and includes, but is not limited to, a process that increases soil fertility and moisture retention. See Ohio Code 6111.01
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Another: when used to designate the owner of property which is the subject of an offense, includes not only natural persons but also every other owner of property. See Ohio Code 1.02
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• anything of value: includes :

  (A) Money, bank bills or notes, United States treasury notes, and other bills, bonds, or notes issued by lawful authority and intended to pass and circulate as money;

  (B) Goods and chattels;

  (C) Promissory notes, bills of exchange, orders, drafts, warrants, checks, or bonds given for the payment of money;

  (D) Receipts given for the payment of money or other property;

  (E) Rights in action;

  (F) Things which savor of the realty and are, at the time they are taken, a part of the freehold, whether they are of the substance or produce thereof or affixed thereto, although there may be no interval between the severing and taking away;

  (G) Any interest in realty, including fee simple and partial interests, present and future, contingent or vested interests, beneficial interests, leasehold interests, and any other interest in realty;

  (H) Any promise of future employment;

  (I) Every other thing of value. See Ohio Code 1.03

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Armed forces: means the armed forces of the United States, including the army, navy, air force, marine corps, coast guard, or any reserve components of those forces; the national guard of any state; the commissioned corps of the United States public health service; the merchant marine service during wartime; such other service as may be designated by congress; or the Ohio organized militia when engaged in full-time national guard duty for a period of more than thirty days. See Ohio Code 5903.01
• Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Asset: means property of a transferor but does not include any of the following:

  (1) Property to the extent it is encumbered by a valid lien;

  (2) Property to the extent it is exempt at the time of a qualified disposition under any applicable nonbankruptcy law, including, but not limited to, section 2329. See Ohio Code 5816.02

• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
• Audit: means any of the following:

  (1) Any examination, analysis, or inspection of the state's or a public office's financial statements or reports;

  (2) Any examination, analysis, or inspection of records, documents, books, or any other evidence relating to either of the following:

  (a) The collection, receipt, accounting, use, or expenditure of public money by a public office or by a private institution, association, board, or corporation;

  (b) The determination by the auditor of state, as required by section 117. See Ohio Code 117.01

• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Beneficial use: means a use of water, including the method of diversion, storage, transportation, treatment, and application, that is reasonable and consistent with the public interest in the proper utilization of water resources, including, but not limited to, domestic, agricultural, industrial, power, municipal, navigational, fish and wildlife, and recreational uses. See Ohio Code 6119.011
• Beneficial use: means a use of water, including the method of diversion, storage, transportation, treatment, and application, that is reasonable and consistent with the public interest in the proper utilization of water resources, including, without limitation, domestic, agricultural, industrial, power, municipal, navigational, fish and wildlife, and recreational uses. See Ohio Code 6121.01
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Benefits: means the employment benefits, other than salary or wages, that an employer regularly provides or makes available to employees, including, but not limited to, medical insurance, disability insurance, life insurance, pension plans, and retirement plans. See Ohio Code 5906.01
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Board: means the Ohio war orphans and severely disabled veterans' children scholarship board created by section 5910. See Ohio Code 5910.01
• Bond: includes an undertaking. See Ohio Code 1.02
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• Chief elected official or officials: when used in reference to a local area, means the chief elected executive officer of a unit of general local government in the local area or, in the case of a local area that includes more than one unit of general local government, the individual or individuals designated under an agreement described in section 107 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, 29 U. See Ohio Code 6301.01
• Child: includes natural and adopted children and stepchildren who have not been legally adopted by the veteran parent provided that the relationship between the stepchild and the veteran parent meets the following criteria:

  (1) The veteran parent is married to the child's natural or adoptive parent at the time application for a scholarship granted under this chapter is made; or if the veteran parent is deceased, the child's natural or adoptive parent was married to the veteran parent at the time of the veteran parent's death;

  (2) The child resided with the veteran parent for a period of not less than ten consecutive years immediately prior to making application for the scholarship; or if the veteran parent is deceased, the child resided with the veteran parent for a period of not less than ten consecutive years immediately prior to the veteran parent's death;

  (3) The child received financial support from the veteran parent for a period of not less than ten consecutive years immediately prior to making application for the scholarship; or if the veteran parent is deceased, the child received financial support from the veteran parent for a period of not less than ten consecutive years immediately prior to the veteran parent's death. See Ohio Code 5910.01

• Child: includes child by adoption. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Claim: means a right to payment, whether or not the right is reduced to judgment or is liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured, or unsecured. See Ohio Code 5816.02
• Codicil: An addition, change, or supplement to a will executed with the same formalities required for the will itself.
• Color of office: means actually, purportedly, or allegedly done under any law, ordinance, resolution, order, or other pretension to official right, power, or authority. See Ohio Code 117.01
• Combined sewer: means a sewer system that is designed to collect and convey sewage, including domestic, commercial, and industrial wastewater, and storm water through a single-pipe system to a treatment works or combined sewer overflow outfall approved by the director of environmental protection. See Ohio Code 6117.01
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Community water system: means a public water system that has at least fifteen service connections used by year-round residents or that regularly serves at least twenty-five year-round residents. See Ohio Code 6109.01
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• constructing: means construction, reconstruction, enlargement, extension, improvement, renovation, repair, and replacement of water supply facilities, but does not include repairs, replacements, or similar actions that do not constitute and qualify as permanent improvements. See Ohio Code 6103.01
• constructing: means construction, reconstruction, enlargement, extension, improvement, renovation, repair, and replacement of sanitary or drainage facilities or of prevention or replacement facilities, but does not include any repairs, replacements, or similar actions that do not constitute and qualify as permanent improvements. See Ohio Code 6117.01
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• cost: includes the costs of conducting the voluntary actions as defined in section 3746. See Ohio Code 6123.01
• County sanitary engineer: means either of the following:

  (1) The registered professional engineer employed or appointed by the board of county commissioners to be the county sanitary engineer as provided in section 6117. See Ohio Code 6103.01

• County sanitary engineer: means either of the following:

  (a) The registered professional engineer employed or appointed by the board of county commissioners to be the county sanitary engineer as provided in this section3;

  (b) The county engineer, if, for as long as and to the extent that engineer by agreement entered into under section 315. See Ohio Code 6117.01

• Court: means the probate court of the county in which the complaint under section 5817. See Ohio Code 5817.01
• Court: means the court of common pleas in which the petition for the organization of a conservancy district is filed and granted, as presided over by the judges provided for in section 6101. See Ohio Code 6101.01
• court: means , unless the context indicates a different meaning or intent, the court of common pleas in which the petition for the organization of a regional water and sewer district is filed. See Ohio Code 6119.011
• Creditor: means a person who has a claim against a transferor and any transferee or assignee of, or successor to, that claim. See Ohio Code 5816.02
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Debt: means a liability on a claim. See Ohio Code 5816.02
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• development project: means any energy resource development facility as defined in section 1551. See Ohio Code 6123.01
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• director: includes an authorized representative of the director. See Ohio Code 6109.01
• Disabled: means having a sixty per cent or greater service-connected disability or receiving benefits for permanent and total nonservice-connected disability, as determined by the United States department of veterans affairs. See Ohio Code 5910.01
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Disposal system: means a system for disposing of sewage, sludge, sludge materials, industrial waste, or other wastes and includes sewerage systems and treatment works. See Ohio Code 6111.01
• Disposition: includes the exercise of a general power so as to cause a transfer of property to a trustee or trustees but does not include any of the following:

  (1) The release or relinquishment of an interest in property that, until the release or relinquishment, was the subject of a qualified disposition;

  (2) The exercise of a limited power so as to cause a transfer of property to a trustee or trustees;

  (3) A disclaimer of an interest in a trust, bequest, devise, or inheritance. See Ohio Code 5816.02

• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Domiciliary: means a separate area within the Ohio veterans' home providing domiciliary care. See Ohio Code 5907.01
• Donee: The recipient of a gift.
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Dower: A widow
• Drainage facilities: means storm sewers, force mains, pumping stations, and facilities for the treatment, disposal, impoundment, retention, control, or storage of waters; improvements of or for any channel, ditch, drain, floodway, or watercourse, including location, construction, reconstruction, reconditioning, widening, deepening, cleaning, removal of obstructions, straightening, boxing, culverting, tiling, filling, walling, arching, or change in course, location, or terminus; improvements of or for a river, creek, or run, including reinforcement of banks, enclosing, deepening, widening, straightening, removal of obstructions, or change in course, location, or terminus; facilities for the protection of lands from the overflow of water, including a levee, wall, embankment, jetty, dike, dam, sluice, revetment, reservoir, retention or holding basin, control gate, or breakwater; facilities for controlled drainage, regulation of stream flow, and protection of an outlet; the vacation of a ditch or drain; equipment and furnishings; and all required appurtenances and necessary real estate and interests in real estate. See Ohio Code 6117.01
• Employer: means a person who employs fifty or more employees and includes the state or any agency or instrumentality of the state, and any municipal corporation, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision of the state. See Ohio Code 5906.01
• enterprise acquisition project: has the meaning defined in section 4313. See Ohio Code 117.01
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Ephemeral feature: means surface water flowing or pooling only in direct response to precipitation, such as rain or snow. See Ohio Code 6111.01
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. ^{Source: OCC}
• Federal Water Pollution Control Act: means the "Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972" 86 Stat. See Ohio Code 6111.01
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}
• former spouse: means only the person to whom a transferor was married on or before a qualified disposition is made. See Ohio Code 5816.02
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Governmental agencies: means departments, divisions, or other units of state government, watershed districts, soil and water conservation districts, municipal corporations, counties, townships, and other political subdivisions, special water districts, including county and regional sewer and water districts, conservancy districts, sanitary districts, sewer districts, or any other public corporation or agency having the authority to acquire, construct, or operate waste water or water management facilities, the United States or any agency thereof, and any agency, commission, or authority established pursuant to an interstate compact or agreement. See Ohio Code 6121.01
• Governmental agency: means a department, division, or other unit of state government, a municipal corporation, county, township, and other political subdivision, or any other public corporation or agency, the United States or any agency thereof, and any agency, commission, or authority established pursuant to an interstate compact or agreement. See Ohio Code 6123.01
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Gross estate: The total fair market value of all property and property interests, real and personal, tangible and intangible, of which a decedent had beneficial ownership at the time of death before subtractions for deductions, debts, administrative expenses, and casualty losses suffered during estate administration.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Historically channelized watercourse: means the portion of a watercourse on which an improvement, as defined in divisions (C)(2) to (4) of section 6131. See Ohio Code 6111.01
• Homestead exemption: means the reduction of taxes allowed under division (A) of section 323. See Ohio Code 6103.01
• Homestead exemption: means the reduction of taxes allowed under division (A) of section 323. See Ohio Code 6117.01
• Homestead exemption: means the reduction of taxes allowed under division (A) of section 323. See Ohio Code 6119.011
• imprisonment: means being imprisoned under a sentence imposed for an offense or serving a term of imprisonment, prison term, jail term, term of local incarceration, or other term under a sentence imposed for an offense in an institution under the control of the department of rehabilitation and correction, a county, multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal jail or workhouse, a minimum security jail, a community-based correctional facility, or another facility described or referred to in section 2929. See Ohio Code 1.05
• improvement: means , without limiting the generality of those terms, water wells and well fields, springs, lakes, rivers, streams, or other sources of water supply, intakes, pumping stations and equipment, treatment, filtration, or purification plants, force and distribution lines or mains, cisterns, reservoirs, storage facilities, necessary equipment for fire protection, other related structures, equipment, and furnishings, and real estate and interests in real estate, necessary or useful in the proper development of a water supply for domestic or other purposes and its proper distribution. See Ohio Code 6103.01
• in writing: includes any representation of words, letters, symbols, or figures; this provision does not affect any law relating to signatures. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Industrial waste: means any liquid, gaseous, or solid waste substance resulting from any process of industry, manufacture, trade, or business, or from the development, processing, or recovery of any natural resource, together with such sewage as is present. See Ohio Code 6111.01
• Industrial waste: means any liquid, gaseous, or solid waste substance resulting from any process of industry, manufacture, trade, or business, or from the development, processing, or recovery of any natural resource, together with such sewage as is present, that pollutes the waters of the state. See Ohio Code 6119.011
• Industrial waste: means any liquid, gaseous, or solid waste substance, heat, radioactivity, or radiation, resulting from any process of industry, manufacture, trade, or business, or from the development, processing, or recovery of any natural resource, together with such sewage as is present, that pollutes the waters of the state or that in the absence of a waste water facility would pollute or cause greater pollution of the waters of the state. See Ohio Code 6121.01
• Industrial water pollution control facility: means any disposal system or any treatment works, pretreatment works, appliance, equipment, machinery, pipeline or conduit, pumping station, force main, or installation constructed, used, or placed in operation primarily for the purpose of collecting or conducting industrial waste to a point of disposal or treatment; reducing, controlling, or eliminating water pollution caused by industrial waste; or reducing, controlling, or eliminating the discharge into a disposal system of industrial waste or what would be industrial waste if discharged into the waters of the state. See Ohio Code 6111.01
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Internal Revenue Code: means the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986" 100 Stat. See Ohio Code 5816.02
• Internet: means the international computer network of both federal and nonfederal interoperable packet switched data networks, including the graphical subnetwork known as the world wide web. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• Irrevocable trust: A trust arrangement that cannot be revoked, rescinded, or repealed by the grantor.
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• Joint meeting: An occasion, often ceremonial, when the House and Senate each adopt a unanimous consent agreement
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lead county: means the county in which the majority of the initial length of a joint county drainage improvement would be located, as specified in an original petition filed under section 6133. See Ohio Code 6133.01
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
• Legacy trust: means a trust evidenced by a written trust instrument to which all of the following apply:

  (a) The trust has, names, or appoints at least one qualified trustee for or in connection with the property that is the subject of a qualified disposition. See Ohio Code 5816.02

• Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• License: means a license, certificate, permit, or other authorization issued or conferred by a licensing agency under which a licensee may engage in a profession, occupation, or occupational activity. See Ohio Code 5903.01
• Licensee: means a person to whom all of the following apply:

  (A) The person has been issued a license by a licensing agency. See Ohio Code 5903.01

• Licensing agency: means any state department, division, board, commission, agency, or other state governmental unit authorized by the Revised Code to issue a license. See Ohio Code 5903.01
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Life estate: A property interest limited in duration to the life of the individual holding the interest (life tenant).
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Local area: means a local workforce development area designated under section 106 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, 29 U. See Ohio Code 6301.01
• Local board: means a local workforce development board established under section 107 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, 29 U. See Ohio Code 6301.01
• maintenance: means repairs, replacements, and similar actions that constitute and are payable as current operating expenses and that are required to restore water supply facilities to, or to continue water supply facilities in, good order and working condition, but does not include construction of permanent improvements. See Ohio Code 6103.01
• maintenance: means repairs, replacements, and similar actions that constitute and are payable as current operating expenses and that are required to restore sanitary or drainage facilities or prevention or replacement facilities to, or to continue sanitary or drainage facilities or prevention or replacement facilities in, good order and working condition, but does not include construction of permanent improvements. See Ohio Code 6117.01
• Marital deduction: The deduction(s) that can be taken in the determination of gift and estate tax liabilities because of the existence of a marriage or marital relationship.
• Merchant marine: includes the United States army transport service and the United States naval transport service. See Ohio Code 5903.01
• Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Nonlegacy trust: means any trust other than a legacy trust. See Ohio Code 5816.02
• Nonqualified trustee: means any trustee other than a qualified trustee. See Ohio Code 5816.02
• Nontransient noncommunity water system: means a public water system that regularly serves at least twenty-five of the same persons over six months per year and is not a community water system. See Ohio Code 6109.01
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Oath: includes affirmation, and "swear" includes affirm. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Ohio water development authority: means the authority created by section 6121. See Ohio Code 6123.01
• OhioMeansJobs center: means a physical one-stop center described in section 121(e)(2) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, 29 U. See Ohio Code 6301.01
• OhioMeansJobs center operator: means an entity or a consortium of entities designated or certified through a competitive process to operate a one-stop center under section 121(d) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, 29 U. See Ohio Code 6301.01
• OhioMeansJobs web site: means the statewide electronic system for labor exchange and job placement activity operated by the state. See Ohio Code 6301.01
• Other wastes: means garbage, refuse, decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, and other wood debris, lime, sand, ashes, offal, night soil, oil, tar, coal dust, dredged or fill material, or silt, other substances that are not sewage, sludge, sludge materials, or industrial waste, and any other "pollutants" or "toxic pollutants" as defined in the Federal Water Pollution Control Act that are not sewage, sludge, sludge materials, or industrial waste. See Ohio Code 6111.01
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Owner: includes all individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, or political subdivisions having any title or interest in any property rights, easements, and interests authorized to be acquired by this chapter. See Ohio Code 6119.011
• Owner: includes all individuals, copartnerships, associations, corporations, or governmental agencies having any title or interest in any property rights, easements, and interests authorized to be acquired by this chapter. See Ohio Code 6121.01
• Owner: includes all individuals, copartnerships, associations, corporations, or governmental agencies having any title or interest in any property, rights, easements, and interests authorized to be acquired by this chapter. See Ohio Code 6123.01
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Per stirpes: The legal means by which the children of a decedent, upon the death of an ancestor at a level above that of the decedent, receive by right of representation the share of the ancestor
• Person: has the meaning defined in section 1. See Ohio Code 117.01
• Person: means the state, any political subdivision, agency, institution, or instrumentality thereof, any federal agency, and any person as defined in section 1. See Ohio Code 6109.01
• Person: means the state, any municipal corporation, any other political subdivision of the state, any person as defined in section 1. See Ohio Code 6111.01
• Person: means any natural person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation other than a political subdivision. See Ohio Code 6119.011
• Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, association, or corporation, or two or more or any combination thereof. See Ohio Code 6121.01
• Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, association, or corporation, or any combination thereof. See Ohio Code 6123.01
• Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Planning region: means an area consisting of two or more local areas that are collectively aligned to engage in the regional planning process outlined in section 106(c)(1) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, 29 U. See Ohio Code 6301.01
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Plea agreement: An arrangement between the prosecutor, the defense attorney, and the defendant in which the defendant agrees to plead guilty in exchange for special considerations. ^Source:
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• political subdivision: means counties, townships, municipal corporations, school districts, road districts, ditch districts, park districts, levee districts, and all other governmental entities vested with the power to levy assessments or taxes. See Ohio Code 6101.01
• Political subdivision: includes departments, divisions, authorities, or other units of state governments, watershed districts, soil and water conservation districts, park districts, municipal corporations, counties, townships, and other political subdivisions, special water districts, including county and regional water and sewer districts, conservancy districts, sanitary districts, sewer districts or any other public corporation or agency having the authority to acquire, construct, or operate waste water or water management facilities, and all other governmental agencies now or hereafter granted the power of levying taxes or special assessments, the United States or any agency thereof, and any agency, commission, or authority established pursuant to an interstate compact or agreement. See Ohio Code 6119.011
• Pollution: means the placing of any sewage, sludge, sludge materials, industrial waste, or other wastes in any waters of the state. See Ohio Code 6111.01
• Pollution: means the placing of any noxious or deleterious substances in any waters of the state or affecting the properties of any waters of the state in a manner that renders those waters harmful or inimical to the public health, or to animal or aquatic life, or to the use of the waters for domestic water supply, industrial or agricultural purposes, or recreation. See Ohio Code 6119.011
• Pollution: means the placing of any noxious or deleterious substances in any waters of the state or otherwise affecting the waters or properties of any waters of the state, including the temperature or radioactivity thereof, in a manner that is or renders the waters harmful or inimical to the public health, to animal or aquatic life, or to the use of the waters for domestic water supply, industrial, or agricultural purposes or recreation. See Ohio Code 6121.01
• Population: means that shown by the most recent regular federal census. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial.
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Prevention or replacement facilities: means vegetated swales or median strips, permeable pavement, trees and tree boxes, rain barrels and cisterns, rain gardens and filtration planters, vegetated roofs, wetlands, riparian buffers, and practices and structures that use or mimic natural processes to filter or reuse storm water. See Ohio Code 6117.01
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probate: Proving a will
• Property: means real and personal property. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Public accountant: means any person who is authorized by Chapter 4701 of the Revised Code to use the designation of certified public accountant or who was registered prior to January 1, 1971, as a public accountant. See Ohio Code 117.01
• Public agency: means a state and any agency or subdivision of a state, including a county, a municipal corporation, or other subdivision. See Ohio Code 6103.01
• Public agency: means a state and any agency or subdivision of a state, including a county, a municipal corporation, or other subdivision. See Ohio Code 6117.01
• Public debt: Cumulative amounts borrowed by the Treasury Department or the Federal Financing Bank from the public or from another fund or account. The public debt does not include agency debt (amounts borrowed by other agencies of the Federal Government). The total public debt is subject to a statutory limit.
• Public money: means any money received, collected by, or due a public official under color of office, as well as any money collected by any individual on behalf of a public office or as a purported representative or agent of the public office. See Ohio Code 117.01
• Public office: means any state agency, public institution, political subdivision, other organized body, office, agency, institution, or entity established by the laws of this state for the exercise of any function of government. See Ohio Code 117.01
• Public official: means any officer, employee, or duly authorized representative or agent of a public office. See Ohio Code 117.01
• Public roads: includes all public highways, roads, and streets in the state, whether maintained by the state, county, city, township, or other political subdivision. See Ohio Code 6119.011
• Public roads: includes all public highways, roads, and streets in the state whether maintained by the state or a county, municipal corporation, township, or other political subdivision. See Ohio Code 6121.01
• Public roads: includes all public highways, roads, and streets in the state whether maintained by the state or by a county, township, municipal corporation, or other political subdivision. See Ohio Code 6123.01
• Public utility facilities: includes tracks, pipes, mains, conduits, cables, wires, towers, poles, and other equipment and appliances of any public utility. See Ohio Code 6121.01
• Public utility facilities: includes tracks, pipes, mains, conduits, cables, wires, towers, poles, and other equipment and appliances of any public utility. See Ohio Code 6123.01
• Public water system: includes any collection, treatment, storage, and distribution facilities under control of the operator of the system and used primarily in connection with the system, any collection or pretreatment storage facilities not under such control that are used primarily in connection with the system, and any water supply system serving an agricultural labor camp as defined in section 3733. See Ohio Code 6109.01
• published: means once in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or counties where the publication is to be made. See Ohio Code 6101.01
• Qualified affidavit: means an affidavit that meets the requirements of section 5816. See Ohio Code 5816.02
• Qualified disposition: means a disposition by or from a transferor to any trustee of a trust that is, was, or becomes a legacy trust. See Ohio Code 5816.02
• Qualified trustee: means a person who is not a transferor and to whom both of the following apply:

  (1)(a) The person, if a natural person, is a resident of this state. See Ohio Code 5816.02

• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• Regional water and sewer district: means a district organized or operating for one or both of the purposes described in section 6119. See Ohio Code 6119.011
• Related trust: means a trust for which both of the following apply:

  (1) The testator is the settlor of the trust. See Ohio Code 5817.01

• Related will: means a will for which both of the following apply:

  (1) The testator is the settlor of a trust. See Ohio Code 5817.01

• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• Revenues: means all rentals and other charges received by a district for the use or services of any project, all special assessments levied by the district pursuant to this chapter, any gift or grant received with respect thereto, and moneys received in repayment of and for interest on any loan made by the district to a political subdivision, whether from the United States or a department, administration, or agency thereof, or otherwise. See Ohio Code 6119.011
• Revenues: means all rentals and other charges for the use or services of any water development project, any gift or grant received with respect thereto, including, without limitation, any moneys received by the authority pursuant to an agreement entered into under section 6109. See Ohio Code 6121.01
• Revenues: means all rentals and other charges received by the authority for the use or services of any development project, any gift or grant received with respect thereto, any moneys received with respect to the lease, sub-lease, sale, including installment sale or conditional sale, or other disposition of a development project, moneys received in repayment of and for interest on any loan made by the authority to a person or governmental agency, whether from the United States or a department, administration, or agency thereof, or otherwise, proceeds of such bonds to the extent of use thereof for payment of principal of, premium if any, or interest on the bonds is authorized by the authority, proceeds from any insurance, condemnation, or guaranty pertaining to a project or property mortgaged to secure bonds or pertaining to the financing of the project, and income and profit from the investment of the proceeds of development revenue bonds or of any revenues. See Ohio Code 6123.01
• Revocable trust: A trust agreement that can be canceled, rescinded, revoked, or repealed by the grantor (person who establishes the trust).
• Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.
• Rule: includes regulation. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Safe Drinking Water Act: means the "Safe Drinking Water Act" 88 Stat. See Ohio Code 6109.01
• Sanitary facilities: means sanitary sewers, force mains, lift or pumping stations, and facilities for the treatment, disposal, impoundment, or storage of wastes; equipment and furnishings; and all required appurtenances and necessary real estate and interests in real estate. See Ohio Code 6117.01
• Service member: means any person who is serving in the armed forces. See Ohio Code 5903.01
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Sewage: means any liquid waste containing sludge, sludge materials, or animal or vegetable matter in suspension or solution, and may include household wastes as commonly discharged from residences and from commercial, institutional, or similar facilities. See Ohio Code 6111.01
• Sewage: means any substance that contains any of the waste products or excrementitious or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals that pollutes the waters of the state. See Ohio Code 6119.011
• Sewage: means any substance that contains any of the waste products or excrementitious or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals and that pollutes the waters of the state or that in the absence of a waste water facility would pollute or cause greater pollution of the waters of the state. See Ohio Code 6121.01
• Sewerage system: means pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, and force mains, and all other constructions, devices, appurtenances, and facilities used for collecting or conducting water-borne sewage, industrial waste, or other wastes to a point of disposal or treatment, but does not include plumbing fixtures, building drains and subdrains, building sewers, and building storm sewers. See Ohio Code 6111.01
• Sludge: means sewage sludge and a solid, semi-solid, or liquid residue that is generated from an industrial wastewater treatment process and that is applied to land for agronomic benefit. See Ohio Code 6111.01
• Sludge disposal program: means any program used by an entity that begins with the generation of sludge and includes treatment or disposal of the sludge, as "treatment" and "disposal" are defined in division (Y) of section 3745. See Ohio Code 6111.01
• Sludge management: means the use, storage, treatment, or disposal of, and management practices related to, sludge and sludge materials. See Ohio Code 6111.01
• Sludge management permit: means a permit for sludge management that is issued under division (J) of section 6111. See Ohio Code 6111.01
• Sludge materials: means solid, semi-solid, or liquid materials derived from sludge and includes products from a treatment works that result from the treatment, blending, or composting of sludge. See Ohio Code 6111.01
• Solid waste: means such unwanted residual solid or semi-solid material as results from industrial operations, including those of public utility companies, and commercial, distribution, research, agricultural, and community operations, including garbage, tires, combustible, noncombustible, or radioactive material, street dirt, and debris. See Ohio Code 6123.01
• Solid waste facilities: means facilities or property, or the modification or replacement of property, for the collection, storage, treatment, utilization, processing, transporting, or final disposal of or recovery of resources or energy from solid waste, including, without limitation, facilities and expenditures that qualify as solid waste disposal facilities under section 103 (b)(4)(E) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, and regulations adopted thereunder, scrap tire recovery facilities registered or permitted under section 3734. See Ohio Code 6123.01
• state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
• State agency: means every organized body, office, agency, institution, or other entity established by the laws of the state for the exercise of any function of state government. See Ohio Code 117.01
• State board: means the governor's executive workforce board required under section 101 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, 29 U. See Ohio Code 6301.01
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Technical assistance: means nonfinancial assistance provided by the state to public water systems and other eligible applicants, including, without limitation, assistance for planning and design, development, and implementation of source water quality protection programs; locating alternative supplies of drinking water; operational training; restructuring or consolidation of small systems; providing treatment information in order to assist compliance with a national primary drinking water standard; and other nonfinancial assistance authorized by the requirements governing the funds established under this chapter. See Ohio Code 6109.01
• Testate: To die leaving a will.
• Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Transferor: means a person who directly or indirectly makes a disposition. See Ohio Code 5816.02
• Transient noncommunity water system: means a noncommunity public water system that does not regularly serve at least twenty-five of the same persons over six months per year and is not a community water system or a nontransient noncommunity water system. See Ohio Code 6109.01
• Treatment works: means any plant, disposal field, lagoon, dam, pumping station, building sewer connected directly to treatment works, incinerator, or other works used for the purpose of treating, stabilizing, blending, composting, or holding sewage, sludge, sludge materials, industrial waste, or other wastes, except as otherwise defined. See Ohio Code 6111.01
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trust: means an inter vivos revocable or irrevocable trust instrument to which, at the time the complaint for declaration of validity is filed under section 5817. See Ohio Code 5817.01
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Undertaking: includes a bond. See Ohio Code 1.02
• Uniformed services: means the armed forces, the Ohio organized militia when engaged in full-time national guard duty, the commissioned corps of the public health service, and any other category of persons designated by the president of the United States in time of war or emergency. See Ohio Code 5906.01
• United States: includes all the states. See Ohio Code 1.59
• United States merchant marine: includes the United States army transport service and the United States naval transport service. See Ohio Code 5910.01
• User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
• Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate.
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Veteran: means any person who has completed service in the armed forces, including the national guard of any state, or a reserve component of the armed forces, who has been discharged under honorable conditions from the armed forces or who has been transferred to the reserve with evidence of satisfactory service. See Ohio Code 5903.01
• Veteran: includes any of the following:

  (1) Any person who was a member of the armed services of the United States for a period of ninety days or more, or who was discharged from the armed services due to a disability incurred while a member with less than ninety days' service, or who died while a member of the armed services; provided that such service, disability, or death occurred during one of the following periods: December 7, 1941, to December 31, 1946; June 25, 1950, to January 31, 1955; January 1, 1960, to May 7, 1975; August 2, 1990, to the end of operations conducted as a result of the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq, including support for operation desert shield and operation desert storm, as declared by the president of the United States or the congress; October 7, 2001, to the end of operation enduring freedom as declared by the president of the United States or the congress; March 20, 2003, to the end of operation Iraqi freedom as declared by the president of the United States or the congress; or any other period of conflict established by the United States department of veterans affairs for pension purposes;

  (2) Any person who was a member of the armed services of the United States and participated in an operation for which the armed forces expeditionary medal was awarded;

  (3) Any person who served as a member of the United States merchant marine and to whom either of the following applies:

  (a) The person has an honorable report of separation from the active duty military service, form DD214 or DD215. See Ohio Code 5910.01

• Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.
• Voice vote: A vote in which the Presiding Officer states the question, then asks those in favor and against to say "Yea" or "Nay," respectively, and announces the result according to his or her judgment. The names or numbers of legisators voting on each side are not recorded.
• Voluntary action: means a voluntary action, as defined in section 3746. See Ohio Code 6123.01
• Waste water: means any storm water and any water containing sewage or industrial waste or other pollutants or contaminants derived from the prior use of the water. See Ohio Code 6119.011
• Waste water: means any water containing sewage or industrial waste or other pollutants or contaminants derived from the prior use of the water. See Ohio Code 6121.01
• Waste water facilities: means facilities, property, or the modification or replacement of property for the purpose of treating, neutralizing, disposing of, stabilizing, dispersing, cooling, segregating, or holding waste water, or for the removal, reduction, containment, alteration, storage, or disposal of sewage or industrial waste or substances containing sewage or industrial waste, or for the prevention or reduction, or reduction of the concentration, of pollution of the waters of the state, including, without limitation, facilities for the withdrawal of waters of the state, facilities for the treatment and disposal of sewage or industrial waste and the residue thereof, facilities for the temporary or permanent impoundment of waste water, both surface and underground, and sanitary sewers and other systems, whether on the surface or underground, designed to transport waste water together with the equipment and furnishings thereof and their appurtenances and systems, whether on the surface or underground, including force mains and pumping facilities therefor when necessary, and facilities or expenditures that qualify as water pollution control facilities under Section 103(C)(4)(F) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, and regulations adopted thereunder, and also includes any property or system to be used in whole or in part for any of the foregoing purposes, whether or not another purpose also is served, and any property or system incidental to or that has to do with or the end purpose of which is any of the foregoing. See Ohio Code 6121.01
• water development project: means either of the following:

  (1) Any waste water facility or water management facility, including undivided or other interests therein, acquired or constructed or to be acquired or constructed by the Ohio water development authority under this chapter, or acquired or constructed or to be acquired or constructed by a governmental agency or person with all or a portion of the cost thereof being paid from a loan or grant from the authority under this chapter, including all buildings and facilities that the authority considers necessary for the operation of the project, together with all property, rights, easements, and interest that may be required for the operation of the project;

  (2) Any project or activity qualifying for financial assistance under section 6109. See Ohio Code 6121.01

• Water management facilities: means facilities for the purpose of the development, use, and protection of water resources, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, facilities for water supply, facilities for stream flow improvement, dams, reservoirs, and other impoundments, water transmission lines, water wells and well fields, pumping stations and works for underground water recharge, stream monitoring systems, facilities for the stabilization of stream and river banks, and facilities for the treatment of streams and rivers, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, facilities for the removal of oil, debris, and other solid waste from the waters of the state and stream and river aeration facilities. See Ohio Code 6119.011
• Water management facilities: means facilities for the development, use, and protection of water resources, including, without limitation, facilities for water supply, facilities for stream flow improvement, dams, reservoirs, and other impoundments, water transmission lines, water wells and well fields, pumping stations and works for underground water recharge, facilities for the management and treatment of storm water, stream monitoring systems, facilities for the stabilization of stream and river banks and coastal erosion areas, as defined in section 1506. See Ohio Code 6121.01
• water resource project: means any waste water facility or water management facility acquired, constructed, or operated by or leased to a regional water and sewer district or to be acquired, constructed, or operated by or leased to a regional water and sewer district under this chapter, or acquired or constructed or to be acquired or constructed by a political subdivision with a portion of the cost thereof being paid from a loan or grant from the district under this chapter, including all buildings and facilities that the district considers necessary for the operation of the project, together with all property, rights, easements, and interest that may be required for the operation of the project. See Ohio Code 6119.011
• Water resources: means all waters of the state occurring on the surface in natural or artificial channels, lakes, reservoirs, or impoundments, and in subsurface aquifers, that are available or may be made available to agricultural, commercial, recreational, public, and domestic users. See Ohio Code 6119.011
• Water resources: means all waters of the state occurring on the surface in natural or artificial channels, lakes, reservoirs, or impoundments, and underground in subsurface aquifers, that are available or may be made available to agricultural, industrial, commercial, recreational, public, and domestic users. See Ohio Code 6121.01
• waters: means flows from rainfall or otherwise produced by, or resulting from, the elements, storm water discharges and releases or migrations of waters from properties, accumulations, flows, and overflows of water, including accelerated flows and runoffs, flooding and threats of flooding of properties and structures, and other surface and subsurface drainage. See Ohio Code 6117.01
• Waters of the state: means all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and other bodies or accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or artificial, regardless of the depth of the strata in which underground water is located, that are situated wholly or partly within, or border upon, this state, or are within its jurisdiction, except those private waters that do not combine or effect a junction with natural surface or underground waters. See Ohio Code 6111.01
• Waters of the state: means all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or artificial, that are situated wholly or partly within, or border upon, this state, or are within its jurisdiction, except those private waters that do not combine or effect a junction with natural surface or underground waters. See Ohio Code 6119.011
• Waters of the state: means all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and other bodies or accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or artificial, that are situated wholly or partly within, or border upon, this state or are within its jurisdiction, except those private waters that do not combine or effect a junction with natural surface or underground waters. See Ohio Code 6121.01
• Whoever: includes all persons, natural and artificial; partners; principals, agents, and employees; and all officials, public or private. See Ohio Code 1.02
• Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act: means the "Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act" 29 U. See Ohio Code 6301.01
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.