5120:1-5-06 Subsidy awards to municipal corporations and counties.

(A) A grant application submitted by a county, group of contiguous couties, or a municipality shall be approved pursuant to rule 5120:1-5-03 of the Administrative Code and funded according to the following priorities:

(1) First priority shall be given to the continued funding of existing community control sanctions that satisfy the standards of this chapter of the Administrative Code and that are designed to reduce the number of persons committed to state penal institutions and/or detained in and/or committed to local corrections agencies.

(2) Second priority shall be given to new community control sanctions that are designed to divert offenders committed to state penal institutions or the number of persons detained in and/or committed to local corrections agencies.

After a county’s or municipality’s grant agreement has been approved by the director of the department, pursuant to paragraph (E) of rule 5120:1-5-03 of the Administrative Code, a county, group of counties, or municipality shall not shift funding between a state penal institution diversion program and a local corrections agency population reduction program unless approved by the department’s bureau of community sanctions.

Effective: 04/08/2007

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 01/12/2007 and 01/12/2012

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 5120.01, 5149.31, 5149.36

Rule Amplifies: 5149.31, 5149.36

Prior Effective Dates: 7/19/93 (emer.), 10/13/93, 7/1/96, 7/1/2002