- legal
The Ohio Revised Code is the compiled, numbered body of Ohio's statutes, cited in the form R.C. 149.43 (or ORC 149.43). It is the legal backbone of the record: nearly every authority a party invokes — an agency's duty, a tool it uses, a right the requester asserts — traces to a specific section of the code.
The same citations recur across the platform's threads. R.C. 149.43 is the Public Records Act behind a constructive denial and a public-records mandamus; R.C. 3735 authorizes the community reinvestment area; R.C. 715.70 the joint economic development district; R.C. 6111 the state water-pollution program. A section number changes only when the legislature amends it through a House Bill — so pinning a claim to its exact R.C. citation is how the platform ties an action to the precise authority in force when it was taken.