3711.021 Fee for license or renewal.

For the purposes of this chapter, a maternity hospital or lying-in hospital includes a limited maternity unit, which is a unit in a hospital that contains no other maternity unit, in which care is provided during all or part of the maternity cycle and newborns receive care in a private room serving all antepartum, labor, delivery, recovery, postpartum, and nursery needs.

The director of health may charge a maternity hospital or lying-in hospital seeking an initial or renewal license under this chapter a fee not exceeding the following:

(A) Four thousand forty-two dollars for a hospital in which not less than two thousand births occurred the previous calendar year;

(B) Three thousand five hundred seventeen dollars for a hospital in which not more than one thousand nine hundred ninety-nine and not less than one thousand births occurred the previous calendar year;

(C) Two thousand nine hundred ninety-two dollars for a hospital in which not more than nine hundred ninety-nine and not less than six hundred fifty births occurred the previous calendar year;

(D) Two thousand four hundred sixty-seven dollars for a hospital in which not more than six hundred forty-nine and not less than four hundred fifty births occurred the previous calendar year;

(E) One thousand nine hundred forty-two dollars for a hospital in which not more than four hundred forty-nine births and not less than one hundred births occurred the previous calendar year;

(F) One thousand four hundred seventeen dollars for a hospital in which not more than ninety-nine births occurred the previous calendar year.

The director shall deposit all fees collected under this section into the general operations fund created under section 3701.83 of the Revised Code. Money generated by the fees shall be used only for administration and enforcement of this chapter and rules adopted under it.

Effective Date: 06-26-2003