COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Ohio Legislature surprised local travel
agents by repealing the state's 26-year-old registration and
bonding law.
Effective immediately, non-ARC agencies are freed from a $50,000
bond requirement.
That's good news for many agents, although Travel Weekly
research last year indicated that authorities did not rigorously
enforce the bond rule.
The Ohio travel agent law was the nation's second-oldest.
Until earlier this year, both Ohio and Nevada required non-ARC
agencies to obtain $50,000 bonds, but Nevada also eliminated that
requirement effectiveness Oct. 1.
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