Rule 109:2-18-01 | Definitions.
As used in this chapter,
(A) "Peace Officer" has the same meaning as in section 109.71 of the Revised Code.
(B) "Trooper" means an individual appointed as a state highway patrol trooper under section 5503.01 of the Revised Code.
(C) "Appointing Authority" means any agency or entity that appoints a peace officer or trooper.
(D) "Public Appointing Authority" means any agency that appoints a peace officer as defined in divisions (A)(1), (A)(3) to (A)(8), (A)(10), (A)(12), (A)(13), (A)(15) to (A)(19), and (A)(22) to (A)(25) of section 109.71 of the Revised Code and the Ohio state highway patrol.
(E) "Responsible Agency" means the appointing authority charged with the responsibility for documenting the peace officer or trooper's training.
(F) "Commission" means the Ohio peace officer training commission.
(G) "Executive Director" means the executive director of the Ohio peace officer training commission.
(H) "Continuing Professional Training" means the training prescribed by section 109.803 of the Revised Code.
(I) "OHLEG" means the Ohio law enforcement gateway.
(J) "Full-time" means peace officers or troopers who are in active pay status receiving compensation and benefits for forty hours in a work week or eighty hours in a fourteen-day period. For purposes of this chapter, active pay status has the same meaning as in rule 123:1-47-01 of the Administrative Code.
(K) "Base hourly rate" means the hourly rate at which a peace officer or trooper is compensated excluding overtime, shift-differential, and other similar enhancements to the hourly rate of pay. For peace officers or troopers who receive an annual salary, base hourly rate is the base annual salary divided by two thousand eighty hours for fulltime appointments or the base annual salary divided by the anticipated annual hours for less than fulltime appointments.
(L) "Mandatory continuing professional training hours" means the twenty-four hours of continuing professional training, described in paragraph (A) of rule 109:2-18-02 of the Administrative Code, that each peace officer and trooper is required to complete each calendar year.
(M) "Additional continuing professional training hours" means any continuing professional training hours, beyond the mandatory twenty-four hours described in paragraph (A) of rule 109:2-18-02 of the Administrative Code, completed in a single calendar year.
(N) "Hospital" has the same meaning as in section 3722.01 of the Revised Code.
(O) "Hospital Security Personnel" means an individual directly employed by a hospital system, or a hospital that is not part of a hospital system, as to perform security functions. Hospital security personnel do not have the authority or duties of a peace officer.
(P) "OPOTA" means the Ohio peace officer training academy.
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