§ 7.01 Form for process
§ 7.10 Legal advertisements, notices, and proclamations
§ 7.101 Publication of proposed amendments to the Ohio constitution
§ 7.11 Publication in newspaper of general circulation
§ 7.12 Qualifications for newspapers publishing legal notices
§ 7.13 Publishing expenses allowed as costs
§ 7.15 Deposit to cover costs of publication
§ 7.16 Abbreviated publication

Terms Used In Ohio Code > Chapter 7 - Process; Publication

  • Account: is a n "advancement" as that term is used in section 3901. See Ohio Code 1761.01
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Basic health care services: means the following services when medically necessary:

    (a) Physician's services, except when such services are supplemental under division (B) of this section;

    (b) Inpatient hospital services;

    (c) Outpatient medical services;

    (d) Emergency health services;

    (e) Urgent care services;

    (f) Diagnostic laboratory services and diagnostic and therapeutic radiologic services;

    (g) Diagnostic and treatment services, other than prescription drug services, for biologically based mental illnesses;

    (h) Preventive health care services, including, but not limited to, voluntary family planning services, infertility services, periodic physical examinations, prenatal obstetrical care, and well-child care;

    (i) Routine patient care for patients enrolled in an eligible cancer clinical trial pursuant to section 3923. See Ohio Code 1751.01

  • 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
  • Biologically based mental illnesses: means schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, paranoia and other psychotic disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and panic disorder, as these terms are defined in the most recent edition of the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders published by the American psychiatric association. See Ohio Code 1751.01
  • Bond: includes an undertaking. See Ohio Code 1.02
  • Business: includes every trade, occupation, and profession. See Ohio Code 1776.01
  • Capital contribution: is a n "advancement" as that term is used in section 3901. See Ohio Code 1761.01
  • Certified nurse-midwife: means an advanced practice registered nurse who holds a current, valid license issued under Chapter 4723 of the Revised Code and is designated as a certified nurse-midwife in accordance with section 4723. See Ohio Code 1.64
  • Child: includes child by adoption. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Closed panel plan: means a health care plan that requires enrollees to use participating providers. See Ohio Code 1751.01
  • 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.
  • Compensation: means remuneration for the provision of health care services, determined on other than a fee-for-service or discounted-fee-for-service basis. See Ohio Code 1751.01
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Constituent: means in a merger or consolidation, the domestic or foreign entity that merges into another entity, the entity into which another entity is merged, or an existing entity consolidated along with another entity into a new entity. See Ohio Code 1776.01
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Contractual periodic prepayment: means the formula for determining the premium rate for all subscribers of a health insuring corporation. See Ohio Code 1751.01
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: means a corporation formed under Chapter 1701. See Ohio Code 1751.01
  • 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.
  • Credit union share accounts: means funds deposited in any shares, accounts, deposits, or certificates of a participating credit union. See Ohio Code 1761.01
  • Credit union share guaranty corporation: means a corporation described in section 1761. See Ohio Code 1761.01
  • Credit union share guaranty insurance: means that insurance for the protection of share accounts of member credit unions described in and required by section 1733. See Ohio Code 1761.01
  • Credit union supervisory authority: means that official who regulates credit unions in another state. See Ohio Code 1761.01
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • 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.
  • Deficiency: means the difference between the guaranteed amount of an individual member's or, as described in division (B)(2) of section 1761. See Ohio Code 1761.01
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • 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:
  • Distribution: means a transfer of money or other property from a partnership to a partner in the partner's capacity as a partner, or to a transferee of the partner. See Ohio Code 1776.01
  • Domestic partnership: means a partnership formed under section 1776. See Ohio Code 1776.01
  • Economic interest: means a partner's share of the profits and losses of a partnership and the partner's right to receive distributions. See Ohio Code 1776.01
  • Emergency health services: means those health care services that must be available on a seven-days-per-week, twenty-four-hours-per-day basis in order to prevent jeopardy to an enrollee's health status that would occur if such services were not received as soon as possible, and includes, where appropriate, provisions for transportation and indemnity payments or service agreements for out-of-area coverage. See Ohio Code 1751.01
  • Enrollee: means any natural person who is entitled to receive health care benefits provided by a health insuring corporation. See Ohio Code 1751.01
  • Entity: means any of the following:

    (1) A for-profit corporation existing under the laws of this state or any other state;

    (2) Any of the following organizations existing under the laws of this state, the United States, or any other state:

    (a) A business trust or association;

    (b) A real estate investment trust;

    (c) A common law trust;

    (d) An unincorporated business or for-profit organization including a general or limited partnership;

    (e) A limited liability company;

    (f) A nonprofit corporation. See Ohio Code 1776.01

  • 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
  • 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.
  • Evidence of coverage: means any certificate, agreement, policy, or contract issued to a subscriber that sets out the coverage and other rights to which such person is entitled under a health care plan. See Ohio Code 1751.01
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Foreign entity: means an entity formed under the laws of another state. See Ohio Code 1776.01
  • Foreign limited liability partnership: means a partnership formed under laws other than the laws of this state and that has the status of a limited liability partnership under those laws. See Ohio Code 1776.01
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • 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.
  • Health care facility: means any facility, except a health care practitioner's office, that provides preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, acute convalescent, rehabilitation, mental health, intellectual disability, intermediate care, or skilled nursing services. See Ohio Code 1751.01
  • Health care services: means basic, supplemental, and specialty health care services. See Ohio Code 1751.01
  • Health delivery network: means any group of providers or health care facilities, or both, or any representative thereof, that have entered into an agreement to offer health care services in a panel rather than on an individual basis. See Ohio Code 1751.01
  • Health insuring corporation: means a corporation, as defined in division (H) of this section, that, pursuant to a policy, contract, certificate, or agreement, pays for, reimburses, or provides, delivers, arranges for, or otherwise makes available, basic health care services, supplemental health care services, or specialty health care services, or a combination of basic health care services and either supplemental health care services or specialty health care services, through either an open panel plan or a closed panel plan. See Ohio Code 1751.01
  • 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
  • Intermediary organization: means a health delivery network or other entity that contracts with licensed health insuring corporations or self-insured employers, or both, to provide health care services, and that enters into contractual arrangements with other entities for the provision of health care services for the purpose of fulfilling the terms of its contracts with the health insuring corporations and self-insured employers. See Ohio Code 1751.01
  • Intermediate care: means residential care above the level of room and board for patients who require personal assistance and health-related services, but who do not require skilled nursing care. See Ohio Code 1751.01
  • 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
  • Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Limited liability partnership: means a partnership that files a statement of qualification under section 1776. See Ohio Code 1776.01
  • Liquidating trustee: means a person other than a partner, who carries out the winding up of a partnership. See Ohio Code 1776.01
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Medical record: means the personal information that relates to an individual's physical or mental condition, medical history, or medical treatment. See Ohio Code 1751.01
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • National credit union administration: means the federal regulatory agency as established and defined by the "Federal Credit Union Act" 84 Stat. See Ohio Code 1761.01
  • National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) Source: OCC
  • 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.
  • Open panel plan: means a health care plan that provides incentives for enrollees to use participating providers and that also allows enrollees to use providers that are not participating providers. See Ohio Code 1751.01
  • Osteopathic hospital: means a hospital registered under section 3701. See Ohio Code 1751.01
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Panel: means a group of providers or health care facilities that have joined together to deliver health care services through a contractual arrangement with a health insuring corporation, employer group, or other payor. See Ohio Code 1751.01
  • Participating credit union: means a credit union that has applied for and been admitted to participation in a credit union share guaranty corporation and whose participation has not been terminated. See Ohio Code 1761.01
  • Partner: means a person admitted to a partnership as a partner. See Ohio Code 1776.01
  • 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.
  • Partnership: means an association of two or more persons to carry on as co-owners a business for-profit formed under section 1776. See Ohio Code 1776.01
  • Partnership agreement: means the agreement among the partners concerning the partnership, whether written, oral, or implied. See Ohio Code 1776.01
  • Partnership at will: means a partnership in which the partners have not agreed to remain partners until the expiration of a definite term or the completion of a particular undertaking. See Ohio Code 1776.01
  • Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Person: means an individual, corporation whether nonprofit or for-profit, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity in its own or any representative capacity, in each case whether domestic or foreign. See Ohio Code 1776.01
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Population: means that shown by the most recent regular federal census. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • 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.
  • Premium rate: means any set fee regularly paid by a subscriber to a health insuring corporation. See Ohio Code 1751.01
  • Primary care provider: means a provider that is designated by a health insuring corporation to supervise, coordinate, or provide initial care or continuing care to an enrollee, and that may be required by the health insuring corporation to initiate a referral for specialty care and to maintain supervision of the health care services rendered to the enrollee. See Ohio Code 1751.01
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Property: means real and personal property. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Property: means all property, real, personal, or mixed, tangible or intangible, or any interest therein. See Ohio Code 1776.01
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Provider: means any natural person or partnership of natural persons who are licensed, certified, accredited, or otherwise authorized in this state to furnish health care services, or any professional association organized under Chapter 1785 of the Revised Code, provided that nothing in this chapter or other provisions of law shall be construed to preclude a health insuring corporation, health care practitioner, or organized health care group associated with a health insuring corporation from employing certified nurse practitioners, certified nurse anesthetists, clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse-midwives, pharmacists, dietitians, physician assistants, dental assistants, dental hygienists, optometric technicians, or other allied health personnel who are licensed, certified, accredited, or otherwise authorized in this state to furnish health care services. See Ohio Code 1751.01
  • Provider sponsored organization: means a corporation, as defined in division (H) of this section, that is at least eighty per cent owned or controlled by one or more hospitals, as defined in section 3727. See Ohio Code 1751.01
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. Source: FDIC
  • 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.
  • Rule: includes regulation. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • 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.
  • Share capital: means the aggregate of all moneys in credit union share accounts, irrespective of how denominated, which show a balance due on the records of the participating credit union and are guaranteed by the guaranty corporation. See Ohio Code 1761.01
  • Solicitation document: means the written materials provided to prospective subscribers or enrollees, or both, and used for advertising and marketing to induce enrollment in the health care plans of a health insuring corporation. See Ohio Code 1751.01
  • Specialty health care services: means one of the supplemental health care services listed in division (B) of this section, when provided by a health insuring corporation on an outpatient-only basis and not in combination with other supplemental health care services. See Ohio Code 1751.01
  • state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, except that as used in sections 1776. See Ohio Code 1776.01
  • state agency: except as otherwise provided in the title, means every organized body, office, or agency established by the laws of the state for the exercise of any function of state government. See Ohio Code 1.60
  • Statement: means a statement of correction or corrected statement under section 1776. See Ohio Code 1776.01
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Subscriber: means a person who is responsible for making payments to a health insuring corporation for participation in a health care plan, or an enrollee whose employment or other status is the basis of eligibility for enrollment in a health insuring corporation. See Ohio Code 1751.01
  • Superintendent of credit unions: means the superintendent of the division of financial institutions of this state. See Ohio Code 1761.01
  • Supplemental health care services: means any health care services other than basic health care services that a health insuring corporation may offer, alone or in combination with either basic health care services or other supplemental health care services, and includes:

    (a) Services of facilities for intermediate or long-term care, or both;

    (b) Dental care services;

    (c) Vision care and optometric services including lenses and frames;

    (d) Podiatric care or foot care services;

    (e) Mental health services, excluding diagnostic and treatment services for biologically based mental illnesses;

    (f) Short-term outpatient evaluative and crisis-intervention mental health services;

    (g) Medical or psychological treatment and referral services for alcohol and drug abuse or addiction;

    (h) Home health services;

    (i) Prescription drug services;

    (j) Nursing services;

    (k) Services of a dietitian licensed under Chapter 4759 of the Revised Code;

    (l) Physical therapy services;

    (m) Chiropractic services;

    (n) Any other category of services approved by the superintendent of insurance. See Ohio Code 1751.01

  • Surviving: means , as applied to an entity, the constituent entity that is specified as the entity into which one or more other constituent entities are to be or have been merged. See Ohio Code 1776.01
  • Tenancy in common: A type of property ownership in which two or more individuals have an undivided interest in property. At the death of one tenant in common, his (her) fractional percentage of ownership in the property passes to the decedent
  • 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.
  • Transfer: includes an assignment, conveyance, lease, mortgage, deed, and encumbrance. See Ohio Code 1776.01
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Tribunal: means a court, or if provided in the partnership agreement or otherwise agreed, an arbitrator, arbitration panel, or other tribunal. See Ohio Code 1776.01
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Undertaking: includes a bond. See Ohio Code 1.02
  • United States: includes all the states. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Urgent care services: means those health care services that are appropriately provided for an unforeseen condition of a kind that usually requires medical attention without delay but that does not pose a threat to the life, limb, or permanent health of the injured or ill person, and may include such health care services provided out of the health insuring corporation's approved service area pursuant to indemnity payments or service agreements. See Ohio Code 1751.01
  • Usury: Charging an illegally high interest rate on a loan. Source: OCC
  • Whoever: includes all persons, natural and artificial; partners; principals, agents, and employees; and all officials, public or private. See Ohio Code 1.02
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.