Ohio Code § 1302.62

Ohio Code § 1302.62. Reproduced from the official Ohio Revised Code, with a citation summary, verification link, and related provisions.

§ 1302.62.

(A) Subject to any security interest in the buyer as provided in division (C) of section 1302.85 of the Revised Code , when the seller has no agent or place of business at the market of rejection, a

merchant buyer is under a duty after rejection of goods in his possession or control

to follow any reasonable instructions received from the seller with respect to the

goods and in the absence of such instructions to make reasonable efforts to sell them

for the seller's account if they are perishable or threaten to decline in value speedily.  Instructions are not reasonable if on demand indemnity for expenses is not forthcoming. (B) When the buyer sells goods under division (A) of this section, he is entitled to

reimbursement from the seller or out of the proceeds for reasonable expenses of caring

for and selling them, and if the expenses include no selling commission then to such

commission as is usual in the trade or if there is none to a reasonable sum not exceeding

ten per cent on the gross proceeds. (C) In complying with this section, the buyer is held only to good faith and good faith

conduct hereunder is neither acceptance nor conversion nor the basis of an action

for damages. (D) Subject to the provisions of divisions (A), (B), and (C) of this section on perishables,

if the seller gives no instructions within a reasonable time after notification of

rejection the buyer may store the rejected goods for the seller's account or reship

them to him or resell them for the seller's account with reimbursement as provided

in divisions (A), (B), and (C) of this section.  Such action is not acceptance or conversion.

Source: official Ohio text · Last verified 2026-08-27

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  • Citation: Ohio Revised Code § 1302.62
  • Jurisdiction: Ohio
  • Code: Ohio Revised Code
  • Text: transcribed from the official source (verify below)

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