Ohio Revised Code General Provisions § 9.75

(1) “Construction manager” and “construction manager at risk” have the same meanings as in section 9.33 of the Revised Code.

(2) “Contractor” means a person who undertakes to construct, alter, erect, improve, repair, demolish, remove, dig, drill, or provide professional design services for any part of a structure or public improvement.  “Contractor” may include any public or business association and any person or entity that actively participates in whole or in part in the actual construction of a public improvement or provision of professional design services by itself, through the use of employees, or through the use of a construction manager, construction manager at risk, professional design firm, design-build firm, general contractor, or subcontractor.

(3) “Design-build firm” has the same meaning as in section 153.65 of the Revised Code.

(4) “Laborer” means a person who does any of the following in furtherance of a public improvement:

(5) “Professional design services” and “professional design firm” have the same meanings as in section 153.65 of the Revised Code.

(6) “Public authority” includes any of the following:

(B)(1) No public authority shall require a contractor, as part of a prequalification process or for the construction of a specific public improvement or the provision of professional design services for that public improvement, to employ as laborers a certain number or percentage of individuals who reside within the defined geographic area or service area of the public authority.

(2) No public authority shall provide a bid award bonus or preference to a contractor as an incentive to employ as laborers a certain number or percentage of individuals who reside within the defined geographic area or service area of the public authority.