(A) "Consumer transaction" means a sale, lease,
assignment, | 8 |
award by chance, or other transfer of an item of
goods, a service, | 9 |
a franchise, or an intangible, to an individual
for purposes that | 10 |
are primarily personal, family, or household,
or solicitation to | 11 |
supply any of these things. A consumer transaction also includes | 12 |
business transactions between persons for goods or services not | 13 |
for resale in the ordinary course of a person's trade or business | 14 |
but for the use or benefit of a person's business or in connection | 15 |
with the operation of a person's business. "Consumer
transaction" | 16 |
does not include transactions between persons,
defined in sections | 17 |
section 4905.03 and 5725.01divisions (A), (C), (D), and (E) of | 18 |
section 5725.01 of the Revised Code, and
their customers; | 19 |
transactions between certified public
accountants or public | 20 |
accountants and their clients; transactions
between attorneys, | 21 |
physicians, or dentists and their clients or
patients; and | 22 |
transactions between veterinarians and their
patients that pertain | 23 |
to medical treatment but not ancillary
services. | 24 |
(G) "Public telecommunications service" means the | 39 |
transmission by electromagnetic or other means,
other than by a | 40 |
telephone company as defined in section 4927.01 of the Revised | 41 |
Code,
of
signs, signals, writings, images, sounds, messages, or | 42 |
data originating
in this state regardless of actual
call routing. | 43 |
"Public telecommunications service" excludes a
system, including | 44 |
its construction, maintenance, or operation, for
the provision of | 45 |
telecommunications service, or any portion of
such service, by any | 46 |
entity for the sole and exclusive use of that
entity, its parent, | 47 |
a subsidiary, or an affiliated entity, and not
for resale, | 48 |
directly or indirectly; the provision of terminal
equipment used | 49 |
to originate telecommunications
service; broadcast transmission by | 50 |
radio, television, or satellite
broadcast stations regulated by | 51 |
the federal government; or cable
television service. | 52 |