Ohio Revised Code Title XXXIII. Education Libraries § 3377.02

There is hereby created the Ohio higher educational facility commission for the purpose of enhancing the educational opportunities of the people of the state and enhancing the availability, efficiency, and economy of educational facilities and institutions, thereby promoting the employment opportunities, economic welfare, public health and general welfare of the people, and for the purpose of alleviating the pressing demands upon tax supported colleges and universities by encouraging the means of instruction through provision for educational facilities at educational institutions and for facilitating, or for achieving lower costs of, the financing or refinancing of educational facilities, all in the manner provided in Chapter 3377. of the Revised Code. The Ohio higher educational facility commission is a body both corporate and politic, constituting an agency or instrumentality of the state and performing essential functions of the state.