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...The board of health of a city or general health district shall determine the duties and fix the salaries of its employees. No member of the board shall be appointed as health officer or ward physician. The board of health of any health district may procure and pay all or any part of the cost of group life, hospitalization, surgical, major medical, sickness and accident insurance, or a combination of any of the fore...

...(A) The board of health of a city or general health district may procure a policy or policies of insurance insuring the members of the board, the health commissioner, and the employees of the board against liability on account of damage or injury to persons and property resulting from any act or omission that occurs in the individual's official capacity as a member or employee of the board or resulting solely out of ...

...When it is necessary for an employee of a board of health of a city or general health district to travel outside the district, such employee shall be reimbursed for travel and per diem expenses incidental to such travel. No employee of a board shall be reimbursed for such travel unless prior approval has been granted by the board.

...The board of health of a city or general health district may provide such infant welfare stations, prenatal clinics, and other measures for the protection of children as are necessary. It may also provide for the prevention and treatment of trachoma and may establish clinics or detention hospitals and provide the necessary medical and nursing service therefor.

...The secretary of the board of health of a city or general health district shall keep a complete and accurate record of the proceedings of the board together with a record of diseases reported to the health commissioner. The records shall be kept as required by the director of health. In each general health district, the health commissioner shall prepare a quarterly report detailing the board's activities during the ...

...(A) The board of health of a city health district may make such orders and regulations as are necessary for its own government, for the public health, the prevention of restriction of disease, and the prevention, abatement, or suppression of nuisances. Orders and regulations not for the government of the board, but intended for the general public, shall be adopted, advertised, recorded, and certified as are ordinanc...

...The board of health of a general health district may make such orders and regulations as are necessary for its own government, for the public health, the prevention or restriction of disease, and the prevention, abatement, or suppression of nuisances. Such board may require that no human, animal, or household wastes from sanitary installations within the district be discharged into a storm sewer, open ditch, or...

...When an order of the board of health of a city or general health district made pursuant to section 3709.20 or 3709.21 of the Revised Code is not complied with in whole or in part, the board may petition the court of common pleas for injunctive or other appropriate relief requiring all persons to whom such order of the board is directed to comply with such order. The court of the county in which such offense is allege...

...Any order or regulation for the public health or for the prevention or restriction of disease issued by a board of health of a city or general health district under section 3709.20 or 3709.21 of the Revised Code may apply to only the following persons: (A) Those who have been medically diagnosed with the disease that is the subject of the order or regulation; (B) Those who have come in direct contact with someone...

...Each board of health of a city or general health district shall study and record the prevalence of disease within its district and provide for the prompt diagnosis and control of communicable diseases. The board may also provide for the medical and dental supervision of school children, for the free treatment of cases of venereal diseases, for the inspection of schools, public institutions, jails, workhouses, childre...

...Each board of health of a city or general health district may provide for the carrying on of such laboratory work as is necessary for the proper conduct of its work. It may establish a district laboratory or may contract with any existing laboratory within or convenient to the district for the performance of such work or may unite with another district in the establishment of a joint laboratory. All state institution...

...Each board of health of a city or general health district may provide for the free treatment of cases of gonorrhea, syphilis, and chancroid. It may establish and maintain one or more clinics for such purpose and may provide for the necessary medical and nursing service therefor. The board may provide for the quarantine of such carriers of gonorrhea, syphilis, or chancroid, as the director of health orders to be quar...

...Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a minor may give consent for the diagnosis or treatment of any sexually transmitted infection by a licensed physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner. Such consent is not subject to disaffirmance because of minority. The consent of the parent, parents, or guardian of a minor is not required for such diagnosis or treatment...

...Each board of health of a city or general health district shall provide for the free distribution of antitoxin for the treatment of cases of diphtheria and shall establish sufficient distributing stations to render such antitoxin readily available in all parts of the district.

...The health commissioner of a city or general health district may make frequent inspection of all county homes, children's homes, workhouses, jails, or other charitable, benevolent, or correctional institutions in the district, including physical examination of the inmates whenever necessary, and may make laboratory examinations of inmates as requested by any state or county official having jurisdiction over an instit...

...The board of health of a city or general health district may establish detention hospitals for cases of communicable diseases and provide for the support and maintenance thereof. It may collect from persons committed to such hospitals the cost of the care and treatment of such persons while inmates therein. The expenses of such indigent persons as are committed to such hospitals shall be a proper charge against and s...

...(A) If a general health district will receive any part of its revenue for a fiscal year from an appropriation apportioned among the townships and municipal corporations composing the district, the board of health of the district shall adopt an itemized appropriation measure under this section for that fiscal year on or before the first day of April of the immediately preceding fiscal year. If a general health d...

...A board of health of a city or general health district may enter into an agreement with the legislative authority of a municipality in which such health district is totally or partially located, and such legislative authority may enter into an agreement with such board of health, whereby such board of health undertakes, and is authorized by such legislative authority to exercise any power, perform any function, or re...

...The board of health of any city or general health district may participate in, receive or give financial and other assistance, and cooperate with other agencies or organizations, either private or governmental, in establishing and operating any federal program enacted prior to or after November 6, 1969, by the congress of the United States.

...A board of county commissioners may give or receive financial or other assistance, cooperate with other agencies or organizations, either private or governmental, or otherwise participate in establishing and operating any health program conducted by a city or general health district.

...If the estimated amount of money necessary to meet the expenses of a general health district program will not be forthcoming to the board of health of such district out of the district health fund because the taxes within the ten-mill limitation will be insufficient, the board of health shall certify the fact of such insufficiency to the board of county commissioners of the county in which such district is loca...

...In case of epidemic or threatened epidemic or during the unusual prevalence of a dangerous communicable disease, if the moneys in the district health fund of a general health district are not sufficient, in the judgment of the board of health of the district, to defray the expenses necessary to prevent the spread of such disease, the board shall estimate the amount required for this purpose and apportion it among ...

...The treasurer of a city which constitutes a city health district shall be the custodian of the health fund of such city health district. The county treasurer of a county which constitutes all or the major portion of a general health district shall be the custodian of the health fund of the general health district. The county auditor of a county which constitutes all or a major portion of a general health district sh...

...The president of each board of health providing health services in one or more health districts and the chief executive officer of each health department providing health services in one or more health districts shall, on or before the first day of March of each year, certify the amounts expended during the preceding calendar year which qualify for state health district subsidy funds under section 3701.342 of t...

...In general health districts the prosecuting attorney of the county constituting all or a major part of such district shall act as the legal advisor of the board of health. In a proceeding in which the board is a party the prosecuting attorney of the county in which such proceeding is instituted shall act as the legal representative of the board.

...lunteer fire organization, or volunteer emergency medical service organization preparing or serving food intended for individual portion service on its premises for not more than seven consecutive days or not more than fifty-two separate days during a licensing period. This exemption extends to any individual or group raising all of its funds during the time periods specified in division (B)(5) of this section for th...

... in writing the director of health, the emergency medical services division of the department of public safety, and the appropriate regional directors and regional advisory boards appointed under section 4765.05 of the Revised Code if any of the following occurs: (A) The hospital ceases to be an adult or pediatric trauma center verified by the American college of surgeons. (B) The hospital changes its level of veri...

...rating physician advisory board of each emergency medical service organization, as defined in section 4765.01 of the Revised Code. The department also shall maintain a comprehensive list of recognized hospitals on its internet web site and update the list not later than thirty days after a hospital is recognized under division (A) of this section or its recognition ends under division (B) of this section.

...(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, the director of environmental protection or the board of health having territorial jurisdiction may by order exempt any person disposing of or proposing to dispose of construction and demolition debris in such quantities or under such circumstances that, in the determination of the director or board of health, are unlikely to adversely affect the public health or safety or...

...The board of health of each health district maintaining a program on the approved list under section 3714.09 of the Revised Code shall provide for the issuance of permits to install for and the inspection of, licensing of, and enforcement of standards governing construction and demolition debris facilities under this chapter and rules adopted under it. The director of environmental protection shall provide for the is...

...ed in providing care to a patient by an emergency medical services organization as defined in section 4765.01 of the Revised Code. (2) Holds a license or renewal of a license to operate a crematory facility issued under Chapter 4717. and a permit issued under Chapter 3704. of the Revised Code; (3) Treats or disposes of dead animals or parts thereof, or the blood of animals, and is subject to any of the followin...

...(A)(1) Not later than one hundred eighty days after December 22, 2005, and in accordance with rules adopted under section 3714.02 of the Revised Code, the director of environmental protection shall establish a program for the issuance of permits to install for new construction and demolition debris facilities. (2) On and after December 22, 2005, no person shall establish a new construction and demolition debris faci...

...ed in providing care to a patient by an emergency medical services organization, as defined in section 4765.01 of the Revised Code, to and leave them at a hospital, as defined in section 3727.01 of the Revised Code, for treatment at a treatment facility owned or operated by the hospital or, in conjunction with infectious wastes generated by the hospital, at another treatment facility regardless of whether the wastes ...

...(A) An application for a permit to install a new construction and demolition debris facility that is submitted under section 3714.051 of the Revised Code shall include all of the following: (1) A listing of all construction and demolition debris facilities or other waste disposal facilities that the owner or operator of the proposed new construction and demolition debris facility or a key employee of the owner or op...

...Not later than sixty days after the director of environmental protection or a board of health, as applicable, receives an application for a permit to install a new construction and demolition debris facility, the applicant shall hold a public hearing in the township or municipal corporation in which the facility or proposed facility is or is to be located. At least thirty days prior to the public hearing, the applica...

...(A)(1) No person shall operate or maintain a construction and demolition debris facility or processing facility without an annual construction and demolition debris facility or processing facility operation license issued by either of the following: (a) The board of health of the health district in which the facility or processing facility is located; (b) The director of environmental protection if the facility or...

...(A) A person who submits an application under section 3714.06 of the Revised Code for a license to operate a construction and demolition debris facility shall submit with the application the plans for the operation of the facility that are required in rules adopted under division (G) of section 3714.02 of the Revised Code. In addition, the owner or operator of the facility shall submit any necessary updates to the pl...

...(A) The director of environmental protection, in consultation with boards of health and a statewide association representing construction and demolition debris facilities and processing facilities, shall establish a program for the certification of operators of construction and demolition debris facilities and processing facilities and shall establish continuing education training requirements for those operators as...

...ed in providing care to a patient by an emergency medical services organization as defined in section 4765.01 of the Revised Code. (b) Holds a license or renewal of a license to operate a crematory facility issued under Chapter 4717. and a permit issued under Chapter 3704. of the Revised Code; (c) Treats or disposes of dead animals or parts thereof, or the blood of animals, and is subject to any of the following: ...

...equipment for fire fighting, ambulance, emergency medical, or rescue services; (2) To expedite projects for the construction or renovation of fire department buildings. A loan for either purpose under the small government fire department services revolving loan program is not to carry interest, and is to be repaid within a term of not longer than twenty years. A qualifying small government is not eligible to rece...

...(A)(1) For the purpose of assisting boards of health and the environmental protection agency in administering and enforcing this chapter and rules adopted under it, there is hereby levied a fee of thirty cents per cubic yard or sixty cents per ton, as applicable, on both of the following: (a) The disposal of construction and demolition debris at a construction and demolition debris facility that is licensed under t...

...trict; joint ambulance district; joint emergency medical services district; fire and ambulance district; joint recreation district; township waste disposal district; township road district; community college district; technical college district; detention facility district; a district organized under section 2151.65 of the Revised Code; a combined district organized under sections 2151.65 and 2152.41 of the Re...

...(A) For the purpose of funding and conducting ground water monitoring at construction and demolition debris facilities by boards of health of health districts that are on the approved list under section 3714.09 of the Revised Code and the director of environmental protection, the director may adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for the purpose of levying a fee of not more than five cents per cubic yard...

... terms of a health benefit plan. (G) "Emergency medical condition" has the same meaning as in section 1753.28 of the Revised Code. (H) "Emergency services" has the same meaning as in section 1753.28 of the Revised Code. (I) "Evidence-based standard" means the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of the current best evidence, based on a systematic review of the relevant research, in making decisions abo...

...The owner or operator of a construction and demolition debris facility that is licensed under this chapter shall allow a board of health or the director of environmental protection, as applicable, to conduct ground water monitoring at the facility to detect negative impacts to ground water quality as provided in section 3714.071 of the Revised Code unless the director determines that it is unlikely that a negative im...

...(A) A health plan issuer shall afford the opportunity for an external review by an independent review organization for an adverse benefit determination if the determination involved a medical judgment or if the decision was based on any medical information, pursuant to the following sections: (1) Section 3922.08 of the Revised Code for a standard review; (2) Section 3922.09 of the Revised Code for an expedit...

...(A) In addition to the fee levied under division (A)(1) of section 3714.07 of the Revised Code, beginning July 1, 2005, there is hereby levied on the disposal of construction and demolition debris at a construction and demolition debris facility that is licensed under this chapter or at a solid waste facility that is licensed under Chapter 3734. of the Revised Code and on the disposal of asbestos or asbestos-containi...

...(A) A board of health may use money in the board's special fund created in section 3714.07 of the Revised Code for the purpose specified in division (B) of this section if both of the following apply: (1) It is the end of the fiscal year. (2) The board determines that it has more money in the fund than is necessary for the board to administer and enforce this chapter and rules adopted under it for the followi...

...(A) At least annually, the board of health of a health district or the director of environmental protection shall cause each construction and demolition debris facility for which the board or the director, as appropriate, issued a license under section 3714.06 of the Revised Code to be inspected and shall cause a record to be made of each inspection. The board or the director shall require each such facility to be in...

...(A) A construction and demolition debris facility shall not accept pulverized debris. (B) The board of health of a health district in which a construction and demolition debris facility is located, the director of environmental protection, or an authorized representative of either may request the removal of pulverized debris that has been brought to the construction and demolition debris facility. A board, the direc...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, a construction and demolition debris facility may request a p rocessing facility to certify that material that is transferred from the p rocessing facility to the construction and demolition debris facility is not off-specification material; hazardous waste, solid wastes, or infectious wastes; or low-level radioactive waste whose treatment, recycling, storage, o...

...(A) If the owner or operator of a construction and demolition debris facility rejects a load of debris that has been accepted at the unloading zone of the facility because the load is not eligible for disposal at the facility under this chapter and rules adopted under it, including section 3714.081 of the Revised Code, the owner or operator shall notify the director of environmental protection or a board of health, a...

... police, fire, sheriff's department, or emergency medical or rescue personnel and units; (e) Members of an exclusive nurse's unit; (f) Employees of Ohio deaf and blind education services; (g) Employees of any public employee retirement system; (h) Corrections officers; (i) Guards at penal or mental institutions; (j) Special police officers appointed in accordance with sections 5119.08 and 5123.13 of the R...

... program; (g) Provisions for necessary emergency medical treatment for an injury or occupational disease provided by a health care provider who is not part of the program; (h) Discounted pricing for all in-patient and out-patient medical services, all professional services, and all pharmaceutical services; (i) Provisions for provider referrals, pre-admission and post-admission approvals, second surgical opini...

... of the plan; (10) Authorize necessary emergency medical treatment for an injury or occupational disease provided by a health care provider who is not a part of the qualified health care plan; (11) Provide an employee the right to change health care providers within the qualified health care plan; (12) Provide for standardized data and reporting requirements; (13) Authorize necessary medical treatment for employe...

...(A) The director of environmental protection shall place each health district that is on the approved list under division (A) or (B) of section 3734.08 of the Revised Code on the approved list for the purposes of issuing permits to install and licenses under this chapter. Any survey or resurvey of any such health district conducted under section 3734.08 of the Revised Code shall also determine whether there is substa...

...The board of health of the health district in which a construction and demolition debris facility is located or the director of environmental protection may deny, suspend, or revoke a license for the facility under section 3714.06 of the Revised Code for violation of any section of this chapter, a rule adopted under it, or a term or condition of the facility's license. No application for a license to be issued under ...

...Falsification of any material information that is required to be submitted to a board of health or the director of environmental protection with respect to a permit to install or a license issued under this chapter or an application for such a permit or license, or falsification of any other material information that is required to be submitted to a board or the director under this chapter and rules adopted under it,...

...(A) The attorney general, the prosecuting attorney of the county, or the city director of law where a violation has occurred, is occurring, or may occur, upon the request of the respective board of health of the health district, the legislative authority of the political subdivision in which a violation has occurred, is occurring, or may occur, or the director of environmental protection, shall prosecute to terminati...

...(A) The board of health of a health district may make orders in accordance with section 3709.20 or 3709.21 of the Revised Code to a permit or license holder or other person to abate, within a specified, reasonable time, a violation of any section of this chapter, a rule adopted under it, or a term or condition of a permit or license issued under it. The director of environmental protection may issue enforcement order...

...(A) No person shall violate any section of this chapter. (B) No person shall violate a rule adopted under this chapter. (C) No person shall violate an order issued under this chapter. Violation of an order issued by a board of health under this chapter is not also a violation of section 3709.20 or 3709.21 of the Revised Code, whichever is applicable. (D) No person who holds a permit or license issued under this ch...

...The director of environmental protection shall establish and maintain a database or databases composed of public information, including, but not limited to, the record made under section 3714.08 of the Revised Code of inspection of each construction and demolition debris facility, information from the annual survey of each health district made under section 3714.09 or 3734.08 of the Revised Code, as applicable, and g...

...Whoever knowingly violates section 3714.13 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree. Each day of violation is a separate offense.

...Hatzalah of Israel, which provides free emergency medical first response throughout Israel. The registrar shall pay the contributions the registrar receives pursuant to section 4503.98 of the Revised Code to the Westerville parks foundation to support the programs and activities of the foundation and its mission of pursuing the city of Westerville's vision of becoming "A City Within A Park." (C) All investment ...

...f volunteers organized to perform as an emergency medical service organization as defined in section 4765.01 of the Revised Code. (B) A motor vehicle titled in the name of a volunteer rescue service organization and used solely in the transaction of the business of the organization may be registered without the payment of any registration fee and service fee required by sections 4503.02 and 4503.10 of the Revised Co...

...ic safety officer" means a firefighter, emergency medical service personnel, law enforcement officer, corrections officer, probation officer, or parole officer. (2) "Immediate family member" means all of the following: (a) A spouse; (b) A parent, stepparent, or other person who acted in loco parentis; (c) A sibling, whether of the whole or half-blood, or by adoption; (d) A child, including those by adoption...

...hicle used to provide transportation or emergency medical service for ill or injured persons; (4) A recreational vehicle; (5) A commercial motor vehicle within the boundaries of an eligible unit of local government, if the person is employed by the eligible unit of local government and is operating the commercial motor vehicle for the purpose of removing snow or ice from a roadway by plowing, sanding, or salting,...

...ars shall be credited to the trauma and emergency medical services fund created by section 4513.263 of the Revised Code. (3) If a person's driver's or commercial driver's license or permit is suspended under this section, under section 4511.196 or division (G) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code, under section 4510.07 of the Revised Code for a violation of a municipal OVI ordinance or under any combination of t...

...uty; (3) Fire department personnel and emergency medical service personnel while on duty; (4) Any person engaged in the operation of equipment for use in the maintenance or repair of any highway; (5) Any person engaged in the operation of refuse collection equipment; (6) Any person wearing earphones or earplugs for hearing protection while operating a motorcycle. (D) Except as otherwise provided in this division...

...ersonnel, fire department personnel, or emergency medical services personnel while such personnel is on duty. (C)(1) No person shall operate an unmanned aerial vehicle or an unmanned aerial vehicle system to photograph, record, or loiter over or near a critical facility with purpose to further another criminal offense, the elements of which involve causing physical harm to another person or causing another person t...

...n 3727.01 of the Revised Code; (c) An emergency medical service organization, as defined in section 4765.01 of the Revised Code; (d) A facility that is operated as an urgent care center. (2) The order in which the entities are listed in division (B)(1) of this section does not establish levels of priority among the listed entities. (C) An overdose reversal drug distributor who in good faith complies with divi...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Disaster" means any imminent threat or actual occurrence of widespread or severe damage to or loss of property, personal hardship or injury, or loss of life that results from any natural phenomenon or act of a human. (2) "Emergency" means an occurrence or event that poses an imminent threat to the health or life of a human. (B) Nothing in this chapter prohibits any of the followin...

...care; (2) Call for assistance from an emergency medical services provider; (3) Arrange for the transfer of the newborn to a hospital.

... to override the requirement to provide emergency medical treatment to all patients as set forth in 42 U.S.C. § 1395dd. (H) With respect to the right of a health care payer to decline to pay for a health care service as established in division (B) of this section, the payer's right to decline applies only to payments and health care services for which a contract has been entered into between the payer and policyho...

...Revised Code; (k) The state board of emergency medical services established under Chapter 4765. of the Revised Code; (l) The state speech and hearing professionals board established under Chapter 4744. of the Revised Code; (m) Any other licensing agency that considers its licensees to be health care professionals. (B) Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, a licensing agency th...