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(A) Subject to section 5126.024 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners of a county that is a member of a multicounty board of mental retardation and developmental disabilities and the senior probate judge of that county may terminate the county’s membership in the multicounty board in the manner provided in this section. To terminate the county’s membership in the multicounty board, the board of county commissioners shall adopt a resolution, and the senior probate judge shall issue an order, providing for the termination.
(B) A resolution and order of termination adopted or issued under this section shall specify the last day that the county will be a member of the multicounty board. The resolution and order also shall provide for the county to do one of the following on the day immediately following the last day that the county will be a member of the multicounty board:
(1) Create a single county board of mental retardation and developmental disabilities;
(2) If the day immediately following the last day that the county will be a member of the current multicounty board is before January 1, 2007, co-create a new multicounty board pursuant to section 5126.021 of the Revised Code;
(3) Join a different multicounty board pursuant to section 5126.022 of the Revised Code.
(C) A resolution and an order of termination adopted or issued under this section shall include a plan for the equitable adjustment and division of all services, assets, property, debts, and obligations, if any, of the multicounty board that the county will cease to be a member of.
(D) Any county terminating its membership in a multicounty board shall continue to have levied against its tax list and duplicate any tax levied by the board of county commissioners for mental retardation and developmental disability services during the period in which the county was a member of the multicounty board until the levy expires or is renewed or replaced.
Effective Date: 2005 SB10 09-05-2005