As used in this Title, certain terms are defined as follows:
(a) “Appliances” means any device or instrument operated by electricity, gas, or otherwise, and designed for personal, family, or household use.
(b) “Consumer” means a person who seeks or acquires real or personal property, goods, or services, primarily for personal, family, or household purposes.
(c) “Consumer Transaction” means a sale, lease, assignment, award by chance, or other transfer of an item of goods, a service, a franchise, or an intangible, to an individual for purposes that are primarily personal, family, or household, or solicitation to supply any of these things. “Consumer Transaction” does not include transactions between persons defined in sections 4905.03 of the Ohio Revised Code and their customers; transactions between certified public accountants or public accountants; transactions between attorneys, physicians, or dentists, and their clients or patients; and transactions between veterinarians and their patients that pertain to medical treatment but not ancillary services. “Consumer transaction” also does not include transactions between persons, defined in 5725.01 of the Ohio Revised Code, including FDIC insured depository institutions and their operating subsidiaries, and their customers unless otherwise provided by federal or state law, statute, or rule.
(d) “Deputy Director” means the Deputy Director of the Office of Consumer Affairs wherever used in this Code as well as Part 1, Administrative Code, Title 9, unless specifically defined otherwise.
(e) “Goods” means all movable things, wares, merchandise, and fixtures whether or not in existence at the time of the transaction except money, securities, and chattel paper but including merchandising certificates.
(f) “Merchant” means a person who regularly deals in real or personal property, goods, or services, in a manner which results or is intended to result in consumer transaction. Merchant includes but is not limited to a seller, lessor, manufacturer, his assigns, or successors.
(g) “Person” means any individual, partnership, partner, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity, or any other legal entity, or their legal representatives, agents, assigns, employees, or successors.
(h) “Services” means and includes, but is not limited to, work, labor, consumer transactions, privileges, and all other accommodations which are primarily for personal, family, or household purposes.
(Ord. 2004-455. Adopted 8-30-04; Ord. 2013-093. Adopted 4-15-13.)