For a title agency that is a joint venture that is set to dissolve or terminate on a specified date, all members of that joint venture shall be allowed or invited to join any successor joint ventures formed upon dissolution or termination of the original joint venture, and the percentage of ownership in any successor joint venture shall not be based on the percentage of title insurance business referred to the original joint venture.

Terms Used In Ohio Code 3953.36

  • Joint venture: means an arrangement undertaken jointly by two or more parties in regard to ownership of a business entity title insurance agent. See Ohio Code 3953.01
  • Title insurance: means insuring, guaranteeing, or indemnifying owners of real property or others interested in real property against loss or damage suffered by reason of liens or encumbrances upon, defect in, or the unmarketability of the title to the real property, guaranteeing, warranting, or otherwise insuring by a title insurance company the correctness of searches relating to the title to real property, or doing any business in substance equivalent to any of the foregoing. See Ohio Code 3953.01

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