Ohio Revised Code Title I. State Government § 122.12

(A) “Endorsing county” means a county that contains a site selected by a site selection organization for one or more games.

(B) “Endorsing municipality” means a municipal corporation that contains a site selected by a site selection organization for one or more games.

(C) “Game support contract” means a joinder undertaking, joinder agreement, or similar contract executed by an endorsing municipality or endorsing county and a site selection organization.

(D) “Game” means a national or international competition or other event, such as a player draft or commemoration, associated with a sport, including the special olympics.

(E) “Joinder agreement” means an agreement entered into by a local organizing committee, endorsing municipality, or endorsing county, or more than one endorsing municipality or county acting collectively and a site selection organization setting out representations and assurances by each endorsing municipality or endorsing county in connection with the selection of a site in this state for the location of a game.

(F) “Joinder undertaking” means an agreement entered into by a local organizing committee, endorsing municipality, or endorsing county, or more than one endorsing municipality or county acting collectively and a site selection organization that each endorsing municipality or endorsing county will execute a joinder agreement in the event that the site selection organization selects a site in this state for a game.

(G) “Local organizing committee” means a nonprofit corporation or its successor in interest that:

(H) “Site selection organization” means the national or international governing body of a sport that is recognized as such by the endorsing municipality, endorsing county, or local organizing committee.

(I) “Sport” means football, auto racing, rugby, cricket, horse racing, mixed martial arts, boxing, baseball, or any sport that is governed by an international federation and included in at least one of the following:

(J) “Qualifying costs” means the costs to fulfill the obligations of a local organizing committee, endorsing municipality, or endorsing county to a site selection organization under a game support contract, which obligations may include the payment of the following costs: