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...When the balance claimed to be due on an open or unsettled account or on a bill, note, or bond, is fifteen thousand dollars or less, the party by whom the balance is claimed may commence an action for the balance before a county court. The court may hear and determine the matters in controversy, without regard to the original account or contract, and render judgment for any balance found due, not exceeding fifteen th...

...In civil actions founded upon a bond or undertaking, a judge of a county court has jurisdiction coextensive with his county.

...If a debtor appears before a county court, without process and confesses that the debtor is indebted a debt owed to a creditor, on the application of the creditor, the court shall render judgment on the confession against the debtor for a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars.

...Mayors retain jurisdiction in all criminal cases involving the violation of ordinances of their respective municipal corporations and in all criminal cases involving moving traffic violations occurring on state highways located within their respective municipal corporations, to be exercised concurrently with the county court.

...(A) Each county court district shall have the following county court judges, to be elected as follows: In the Adams county county court, one part-time judge shall be elected in 1982. Until December 31, 2030, in the Ashtabula county county court, one part-time judge shall be elected in 1980, and one part-time judge shall be elected in 1982. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of division (C) of section 1907.13 ...

...(A) A county court judge, at the time of filing a nominating petition for the office or at the time of appointment to the office and during the judge's term of office, shall be a qualified elector and a resident of the county court district in which the judge is elected or appointed. A county court judge does not have to be a resident of an area of separate jurisdiction in the county court district to which the judge...

...(A) In a county court district having only one judge, that judge shall be the presiding and administrative judge for that district. (B) In a county court district having two or more judges, the presiding and administrative judge shall be elected or designated as provided in the Rules of Superintendence for the Courts of Ohio.

...(A) A judge of a county court shall take an oath of office as provided in section 3.23 of the Revised Code. (B) The office of judge of a county court is subject to forfeiture, and a judge may be removed from office, for the causes and by the procedure provided in sections 3.07 to 3.10 of the Revised Code.

...(A)(1) If a vacancy occurs in the office of a judge of a county court that consists of only one judge or if the judge of a county court of that nature is incapacitated or unavailable due to disqualification, suspension, or recusal, the chief justice of the supreme court may assign a sitting judge of another court of record or a retired judge of a court of record to temporarily serve on the court in accordance with ru...

...(A) An acting judge appointed pursuant to division (A)(2)(a), (B)(1), or (C)(1) of section 1907.141 of the Revised Code shall receive reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses and a per diem compensation established by the incumbent judge, provided the per diem compensation of the acting judge shall not exceed the per diem compensation paid to the incumbent judge based upon a work year of one hundred thir...

...(A)(1) Subject to reimbursement under division (B) of this section, the treasurer of the county in which a county court is located shall pay the per diem compensation to which an acting judge appointed pursuant to division (A)(2)(a), (B)(1), or (C)(1) of section 1907.141 of the Revised Code is entitled pursuant to division (A) of section 1907.142 of the Revised Code. (2) The treasurer of the county in which a coun...

...(A)(1) In counties having more than one county court judge, the presiding judge of the county court may divide the county court district into areas of separate jurisdiction and may designate the location at which each judge shall hold court. Except in county court districts exceeding one hundred twenty thousand population, each area of separate jurisdiction shall be made up of one or more townships. In assigning area...

...(A) Beginning July 1, 1997, judges of a county court shall receive as compensation thirty-five thousand five hundred dollars each year in addition to the compensation payable under division (A)(6) of section 141.04 of the Revised Code. (B) The compensation of judges of a county court may be paid in either biweekly installments or semimonthly installments, as determined by the payroll administrator, and shall be pai...

...or any combination of those benefits or services. (B) The board of county commissioners, after consultation with the judges of the county court, shall negotiate and contract for, purchase, or otherwise procure group health care coverage for the judges and their spouses and dependents from insurance companies authorized to engage in the business of insurance in this state under Title XXXIX of the Revised Code or heal...

...In addition to the compensation provided in section 1907.16 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners may provide for payment of a fixed annual amount, not to exceed two thousand dollars, to each county court judge.

...(A) County court judges, within and coextensive with their respective counties, have jurisdiction and authority to: (1) Administer an oath authorized or required by law to be administered; (2) Take acknowledgments of instruments of writing; (3) Issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses to give evidence in causes or matters pending before the judges, or for the purpose of taking depositions or per...

...(A) If a sheriff or chief of police has not taken, or caused to be taken, a person's or child's fingerprints in accordance with division (A)(1) of section 109.60 of the Revised Code with respect to a crime or act set forth in that division by the time of the arraignment or first appearance of the person or child with respect to that crime or act, the county court shall order the person or child to appear before...

...The board of county commissioners shall provide for each county court judge in the county suitable court and office space and all materials necessary for the business of the court, including a current set of the Revised Code.

...(A) The clerk of courts shall be the clerk of the county court, except that the board of county commissioners, with the concurrence of the county court judges, may appoint a clerk for each county court judge, who shall serve at the pleasure of the board and shall receive compensation as set by the board, payable in semimonthly installments from the treasury of the county. Except as otherwise provided in section 3.061...

...(A) The judge or judges of a county court may appoint an interpreter, one or more mental health professionals, one or more probation officers, an assignment commissioner, a deputy assignment commissioner, and other court aides on a full-time, part-time, per diem, hourly, or other basis, who shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing judge or judges and who shall receive compensation as prescribed by the board of c...

...(A) Beginning not later than two hundred seventy days after the effective date of this section, pleadings or documents may be filed with the clerk of the county court either in paper format or in electronic format. (B)(1) The clerk shall determine whether the filing of pleadings or documents in electronic format may be accomplished either by electronic mail or through the use of an online platform. (2) The fee fo...

...Each clerk of a county court shall keep an alphabetical index to his docket, in which he shall enter the names of the parties to each judgment, direct and reverse, with a reference to the page of the entry. The names of the parties shall be entered in the index in the alphabetical order of the first letter of the family name. The clerk shall number the cases progressively on his docket, and shall correspondingly numb...

...Upon the expiration of his term of office , the clerk of a county court shall deposit with his successor such clerk's official dockets, the official dockets of his predecessors that are in his custody, and all files, papers, and other materials that pertain to his office and that are kept at his office as public records and property.

...A clerk of a county court who receives by succession dockets, files, papers, and materials as provided in section 1907.22 of the Revised Code shall, if requested, give a receipt for them to the person from whom they are received.

...Notwithstanding section 149.38 of the Revised Code, each clerk of a county court shall retain documentation regarding each criminal conviction and plea of guilty involving a case that is or was before the court. The documentation shall be in a form that is admissible as evidence in a criminal proceeding as evidence of a prior conviction or that is readily convertible to or producible in a form that is admissible as e...

...y Ohio products, labor, skill, or other services. "Produced" does not include the mere assembling or putting together of products or materials from outside of Ohio or a state bordering Ohio. (E) "Buy Ohio products" means products that are mined, excavated, produced, manufactured, raised, or grown in the state or a state bordering Ohio where the input of Buy Ohio products, labor, skill, or other services constitute...

...(A) The department of administrative services shall establish contracts for supplies and services, including telephone, other telecommunications, and computer services, for the use of state agencies, and may establish such contracts for the use of any political subdivision as described in division (B) of section 125.04 of the Revised Code, except for the following: (1) The adjutant general for military supplies and...

... agency wanting to purchase supplies or services shall make the purchase subject to the requirements of an applicable first or second requisite procurement program described in this section, or obtain a determination from the department of administrative services that the purchase is not subject to a first or second requisite procurement program. State agencies shall submit a purchase request to the department of adm...

.... (B) The director of administrative services shall establish and maintain an Ohio-based personal protective equipment manufacturers program. Under the program, the director shall establish and maintain a list of Ohio-based personal protective equipment manufacturers qualified to fulfill a purchase request under division (B)(3) of section 125.035 of the Revised Code.

...ved by the department of administrative services to participate in the department's contracts under this division. (e) "Private fire company" has the same meaning as in section 9.60 of the Revised Code. (f) "State institution of higher education" has the meaning defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code. (2) Subject to division (C) of this section, the department of administrative services may permit a st...

...mounts for the purchase of supplies or services determined under section 125.05 of the Revised Code; (2) Purchases that equal or exceed the dollar amounts for the purchase of supplies or services determined under section 125.05 of the Revised Code with the approval of the controlling board, if that approval is required by section 127.16 of the Revised Code; (3) The final determination of the nature or ...

...e agency shall purchase any supplies or services except as provided in this section and section 127.16 of the Revised Code. When exercising direct purchasing authority the agency shall utilize a selection process that complies with all applicable laws, rules, or regulations of the department of administrative services. (A) A state agency may, without competitive selection, make any purchase of supplies or services...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Advertising" includes advertising in print or electronic newspapers, journals, or magazines and advertising broadcast over radio or television or placed on the internet. (2) "State official" means an official elected to a statewide office or a member of the general assembly. (B) Any advertising purchased with public money by a state official for the same purpose that, in the aggre...

...r platform to access digital content or services on a recurring basis in exchange for a subscription fee. (2) "State agency" has the same meaning as in section 1.60 of the Revised Code, except that it does not include the general assembly, any legislative agency, or the governor. (B) Any online subscription purchased by a state agency for a news periodical or news web site that is not headquartered in this state,...

...ediate and serious need for supplies or services that cannot be met through normal procurement methods required by state law; and (c) A serious threat of harm to the functioning of state government, the preservation or protection of property, or the health or safety of any person. (B) During the period of an emergency, the department of administrative services may suspend, for the emergency management agency establ...

...ed Code, the director of administrative services may make purchases by competitive sealed bid. The competitive sealed bid, at a minimum, shall contain a detailed description of the supplies or services to be purchased, terms and conditions of the sale, and any other information the director considers to be necessary for the intended purchase. Competitive sealed bids shall be awarded as provided in section 125.11 of t...

...th rules the director of administrative services shall adopt, the director may make purchases by competitive sealed proposal whenever the director determines that the use of competitive sealed bidding is not possible or not advantageous to the state. (B) Proposals shall be solicited through a request for proposals. The request for proposals shall state the relative importance of price and other evaluation factors....

...ferors submit bids in competing to sell services or supplies in an open environment via the internet. (B) Whenever the director of administrative services determines that the use of a reverse auction is advantageous to the state, the director, in accordance with rules the director shall adopt, may purchase services or supplies by reverse auction. (C) The director, by rule, may authorize a state agency that is auth...

...The department of administrative services shall actively promote and accelerate the use of electronic procurement, including reverse auctions as defined by section 125.072 of the Revised Code, when exercising its statutory powers. Beginning July 1, 2004, the department shall annually on or before the first day of July report to the committees in each house of the general assembly dealing with finance indicating th...

...Any person who is certified by the director of development in accordance with the rules adopted under division (B)(1) of section 122.921 of the Revised Code as a minority business enterprise may have that person's name placed on a special minority business enterprise notification list to be used in connection with contracts awarded under section 125.081 of the Revised Code. The minority business enterprise notificati...

...s that the department of administrative services is required by law to make through competitive selection, the director of administrative services shall select a number of such purchases, the aggregate value of which equals approximately fifteen per cent of the estimated total value of all such purchases to be made in the current fiscal year. The director shall set aside the purchases selected for competition only by...

...opted by the director of administrative services. (B) The director of administrative services shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing guidelines for the procurement of recycled products pursuant to division (A) of this section.

... Code, the department of administrative services may prescribe such conditions under which competitive sealed bids, competitive sealed proposals, and bids in reverse auctions will be received and terms of the proposed purchase as it considers necessary; provided, that all such conditions and terms shall be reasonable and shall not unreasonably restrict competition, and bidders may bid and offerors may propose upon al...

...As used in this section and sections 125.092 and 125.093 of the Revised Code: (A) "Agricultural materials" means agricultural-based materials or residues, including plant, animal, and marine materials or residues, used in the manufacture of commercial or industrial nonfood products. (B) "Biobased product" means a product determined by the United States secretary of agriculture to be a commercial or industria...

...plies, the department of administrative services, other state agencies, and state institutions of higher education shall purchase biobased products in accordance with the biobased product preference program established by the director of administrative services under this section. (B) Not later than one hundred eighty days after the effective date of this section, the director shall establish a biobased produ...

...eafter, the director of administrative services shall prepare and submit to the governor, the president of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives a report that describes the number and types of biobased products purchased under section 125.092 of the Revised Code and the amount of money spent by the department of administrative services and other state agencies for those biobased products.

...(A) The department of administrative services may require that all competitive sealed bids, competitive sealed proposals, and bids received in a reverse auction be accompanied by a performance bond or other financial assurance acceptable to the director of administrative services, in the sum and with the sureties it prescribes, payable to the state, and conditioned that the person submitting the bid or proposal, if t...

...ction, the department of administrative services or the state agency responsible for evaluating a contract for the purchase of products or services shall evaluate the bids and offers received according to the criteria and procedures established pursuant to division (B) of section 125.09 of the Revised Code for determining if a product is mined, excavated, produced, manufactured, raised, or grown in the United States,...

...(A) Every contract for or on behalf of the state or any of its political subdivisions for any purchase shall contain provisions similar to those required by section 153.59 of the Revised Code in the case of construction contracts by which the contractor agrees to both of the following: (1) That, in the hiring of employees for the performance of work under the contract or any subcontract, no contractor or subcontrac...

... (B) The department of administrative services shall establish and maintain a single searchable web site, accessible by the public at no cost, that includes all of the following information for each state award: (1) The name of the entity receiving the award; (2) The amount of the award; (3) Information on the award, the agency or other instrumentality of the state that is providing the award, and the commodi...