Ohio Code § 1111.09

§ 1111.09.

(A)(1) A trust service office is any location established by a trust company as a place

for either of the following: (a) Persons seeking the services of the trust company, or information about those services,

to contact representatives of the trust company regarding the trust company's business. (b) The trust company's representatives to contact the trust company's customers, or

potential customers, and their representatives. (2) None of the following is a trust service office: (a) Any location where a trust company conducts its operations but does not provide facilities

for contact with its customers or contact by the public with the trust company; (b) Any location that is the home or place of work or business or used for the convenience

of the trust company's customer, potential customer, or a representative of a customer

or potential customer where the trust company's representative's contact with its

customer, potential customer, or a representative of a customer or potential customer

is merely incidental to the purposes for which the location is maintained and to the

activities conducted there; (c) Any location where another person, including a financial institution, conducts its

business and persons inquiring about trust services are merely referred to a trust

company, even if referrals to a particular trust company are by exclusive arrangement

and compensated. (B) A trust company may, consistent with the trust company's safe and sound operation

and the law, establish and maintain trust service offices at any location, including

the following: (1) If clearly identified and distinguished, at a location where another person, including

a financial institution, also conducts business; (2) If the trust company is a bank, savings and loan association, or savings bank, at

any of its approved banking offices or main office or branches. (C)(1) A trust company shall give notice in writing to the superintendent of financial institutions

prior to establishing, relocating, or closing a trust service office in this state. (2) A trust company that is a state bank also shall give notice in writing to the superintendent

prior to establishing, relocating, or closing a trust service office outside this

state.