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...This chapter does not apply to the following categories of courses, schools, or colleges: (A) Tuition-free courses or schools conducted by employers exclusively for their own employees; (B) Nonprofit institutions with certificates of authorization issued pursuant to section 1713.02 of the Revised Code or that are nonprofit institutions exempted from the requirement to obtain a certificate by division (E) of tha...

...ance at meetings or in performing other services for the board. The chairperson of the board shall annually be elected or determined as follows: (A) If both members of the board representing the general public have served on the board for at least one year, the members shall elect one of these two members as chairperson. If one of these members declines to be elected or serve, the other member representing the gen...

...The state board of career colleges and schools shall: (A) Adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code necessary to carry out its duties and responsibilities under this chapter; (B) Establish minimum standards for the registration and operation of private career schools including but not necessarily limited to standards to ensure school financial stability; (C) Issue certificates of registration to private ...

...ucation. The board may also arrange for services and facilities to be provided by the department of education and workforce or the department of higher education. All receipts of the board shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the occupational licensing and regulatory fund.

...(A) The state board of career colleges and schools shall issue a certificate of registration to an applicant seeking to offer one or more programs upon receipt of the fee established in accordance with section 3332.07 of the Revised Code and upon determining the applicant has the facilities, resources, and faculty to provide students with the kind of instruction that it proposes to offer and meets the minimum standar...

...The state board of career colleges and schools shall direct that a written survey be obtained by schools subject to this chapter, which shall be used to solicit comments from students enrolled at such schools. The board shall establish the guidelines for the survey by rule. The survey shall be designed to determine student satisfaction with the quality of instruction, facilities, school personnel, and business opera...

...(A)(1) No program shall be established, offered, or given for a charge, fee, or other contribution; no certificate, diploma, degree, or other written evidence of proficiency or achievement shall be offered whether in a specified place, by correspondence, or any other means of communication, or awarded; and no student enrollment in such program shall be solicited through advertising, agents, mail circulars, or other m...

...(A) Each application for issuance and renewal of a certificate of registration, for the issuance and renewal of program authorization, for issuance and renewal of agent's permits, and for any other service specified by the state board of career colleges and schools shall be accompanied by the required fee. Fees submitted under this section are not returnable even if approval or renewal is denied. (B) Fee schedules ...

...A college or school that holds a certificate of registration under this chapter shall pay any fee required by the state board of career colleges and schools for a new student disclosure course fee. No college or school shall charge a student for the fee paid under this section, either directly or through any increase in fees or tuition charged to a student to pay the disclosure course fee.

...The application for a certificate of registration for a school located within Ohio shall be accompanied by a surety bond in a penal sum established by rule of the state board of career colleges and schools pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code with conditions and in a form prescribed by the board with at least one corporate bonding company approved by the department of insurance as surety thereon. Bond sha...

...The student tuition recovery authority is created as a body corporate and politic of this state. The purpose of the authority is to protect students of any school registered by the state board of career colleges and schools from prepaid tuition loss for the academic term due to a school closure. The authority shall consist of five members as follows: the executive director of the state board of career colleges and ...

...The state board of career colleges and schools may pursue any lawful means of assuring that students of any school registered by the state board do not suffer prepaid tuition loss as a result of the closure of a school. This may include lawsuits against a school or any individual who may reasonably have liability as a result of the default, in which the attorney general shall advise and represent the board. Any stude...

...l be used and reused to provide for the services described in this chapter.

...The student tuition recovery authority may: (A) Adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business; (B) Maintain a principal office at such place within the state as is designated by the authority; (C) Direct moneys to be paid by the surety on the bond required by section 3332.08 of the Revised Code and distribute moneys from the student tuition recovery fund to or on behalf of studen...

...(A) Not later than the thirty-first day of August in each year, each school registered by the state board of career colleges and schools shall pay into the student tuition recovery fund in the following amounts: (1) Schools initially registered or sold on or after July 28, 1989, for the first five payments $500; (2) Any other school, according to its prior year's tuition receipts: Up to $400,000 $ 200 $4...

...r national origin; (12) Accepting the services of an agent not holding a valid permit issued under section 3332.10 or 3332.11 of the Revised Code; (13) The use of monetary or other valuable consideration by the school's agents or representatives to induce prospective students to enroll in the school, or the practice of awarding monetary or other valuable considerations without board approval to students in exchan...

...(A)(1) Any person adversely affected by the actions of a certificate holder may file a complaint with the state board of career colleges and schools alleging that any school registered with the board has violated any provision of section 3332.09 of the Revised Code. The complaint shall be in writing and signed by the complainant and shall be filed with the board within six months after the violations allegedly were ...

...Any school subject to this chapter receiving money under section 3333.122 of the Revised Code on behalf of a student who is determined by the state board of career colleges and schools to be ineligible under such section because the program in which the student is enrolled does not lead to an associate or baccalaureate degree, shall be liable to the state for the amount specified in section 3333.122 of the Revised Co...

...(A) No individual shall sell any program or solicit students therefor in this state unless the individual is an employee of the school. Any individual whose primary duty, whether on or off school premises, is to solicit prospective students shall first secure a permit as an agent from the state board of career colleges and schools. If the agent represents more than one school, a separate permit shall be obtained for ...

...Any agent's permit applied for pursuant to section 3332.10 of the Revised Code shall be granted or denied within thirty days of the receipt of the application by the state board of career colleges and schools. If the board has not completed its determination with respect to the issuance of a permit within such thirty-day period, it shall issue a temporary permit to the applicant, which permit is sufficient to meet th...

...Any agent's permit issued may be suspended or revoked by the state board of career colleges and schools if the holder of the permit solicits or enrolls students through fraud, deception, or misrepresentation, upon a finding that the permit holder has violated any provision enumerated in division (A)(1), (2), (6), (8), (10), (11), or (13) of section 3332.09 of the Revised Code, or upon finding that the permit holder i...

...The fact that a bond is in force pursuant to section 3332.08 of the Revised Code does not limit nor impair any right of recovery otherwise available pursuant to law, nor is the amount of such bond relevant in determining the amount of damages or other relief to which any plaintiff may be entitled.

...No recovery shall be had on any contract for or in connection with a program by any person selling or administering such program if the agent of such person was not the holder of an agent's permit as required by section 3332.10 of the Revised Code at the time he negotiated the contract for or sold the program.

...The issuance of a permit pursuant to sections 3332.10 and 3332.11 of the Revised Code does not constitute approval of any program or the person offering, conducting, or otherwise administering the program, unless such person holds the certificate of registration and appropriate program authorization required by section 3332.05 of the Revised Code. Any representation contrary to this section or tending to imply that a...

...Consumer transactions entered into with schools subject to this chapter are subject to Chapter 1345. of the Revised Code. As used in this section, "consumer transaction" has the same meaning as in section 1345.01 of the Revised Code.

...ned by the department of administrative services.

...(A) The director of administrative services shall determine the reimbursable cost of space in state-owned or state-leased facilities and shall collect reimbursements for that cost. (B) The director may provide building maintenance services and tenant improvement services to any state agency and may collect reimbursements for the cost of providing those services. (C) All money collected by the department of administ...

... Code, the department of administrative services may operate or contract for child care services in any facility owned or maintained by the department or any other state agency if the director of administrative services determines such space is available; such space shall be used to provide child care services to a group of individuals of whom at least fifty per cent are state of Ohio employees; and priority fo...

...The department of administrative services shall create and administer an online computer network system that allows persons to electronically file business reply forms and, as authorized in the Revised Code, tax information with state agencies or political subdivisions.

...(A) The department of administrative services shall have supervision of all public printing except as follows: (1) Printing for the general assembly shall be the sole responsibility of the clerk of the senate and the clerk of the house of representatives unless the clerk of the senate or the clerk of the house of representatives chooses either of the options specified in section 101.523 or 101.524 of the Revised Co...

...(A) The department of administrative services may establish an enterprise data management and analytics program to gather, combine, and analyze data provided by one or more agencies to measure the outcome of state-funded programs, develop policies to promote the effective, efficient, and best use of state resources, and to identify, prevent, or eliminate the fraudulent use of state funds, state resources, or state pr...

...tor fails to furnish printing goods and services according to the terms of the contract, the department of administrative services shall purchase the required printing goods and services on the open market after notifying the contractor in writing of such action, and the cost in excess of the contract shall be collected from the contractor or the posted bond, if a bond was provided.

...ed by, the department of administrative services. If the department approves the printing, it shall determine the form of such printing and the number of copies. If such approval is given, the department shall cause the same to be printed and bound; and when printed, such publications or forms shall be delivered to the ordering officer, board, commission, or department, or sold at a price not to exceed the total co...

...The department of administrative services shall keep detailed accounts of all state office reproduction services, printing and binding.

...(A) The department of administrative services shall maintain facilities to perform office reproduction services for all boards, commissions, or departments. Upon written application to the department of administrative services, permission may be granted to a board, commission, or department to perform such services outside the central facility and such permission shall state the extent of the services which the depar...

...The department of administrative services may set a daily penalty charge for late orders, provided the penalty schedule and amount are stated in the invitation to bid or request for proposals for printing.

...facture of products or the provision of services; (6) Is a nonprofit corporation for federal tax purposes. (B) "Government ordering office" means any of the following: (1) Any state agency, including the general assembly, the supreme court, and the office of a state elected official, or any state authority, board, bureau, commission, institution, or instrumentality that is funded in total or in part by state money...

...The director of administrative services shall establish the office of procurement from community rehabilitation programs within the department of administrative services. The director shall designate an employee of the department to serve as administrator of the office.

...partment of mental health and addiction services, the department of job and family services, the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency, and any other state or governmental agency or community rehabilitation program responsible for the provision of rehabilitation and vocational educational services to persons with work-limiting disabilities may, through written agreement, cooperate in providing resources ...

...ocurement list of approved supplies and services available from qualified nonprofit agencies; (2) Monitor the procurement practices of government ordering offices to ensure compliance with sections 125.60 to 125.6012 of the Revised Code; (3) In cooperation with qualified nonprofit agencies, government ordering offices, the department of developmental disabilities, the department of mental health and addiction ser...

...s qualified to provide its supplies and services for procurement by government ordering offices. The office shall prescribe the form of the application. If the office is satisfied the program is qualified, it shall certify the program as a qualified nonprofit agency for the purposes of sections 125.60 to 125.6012 of the Revised Code.

...B) Act as a distributor of supplies and services registered on the procurement list maintained by the office under section 125.603 of the Revised Code; (C) Provide marketing, administrative, and other services related to sales.

...Prior to purchases by government ordering offices, the office of procurement from community rehabilitation programs shall attempt to establish for each item on the procurement list a fair market price that is representative of the range of prices that a government ordering office would expect to pay to purchase the item in the marketplace. When establishing a fair market price for an item, the office of procurement f...

.... (E) The department of administrative services has the authority to structure or regulate competition among qualified nonprofit agencies for the overall benefit of the program.

...rdering offices purchasing supplies and services from qualified non-profit agencies or their approved agents shall reimburse the department of administrative services a reasonable sum to cover the department's costs of administering sections 125.60 to 125.6012 of the Revised Code. The department may bill administrative costs to government ordering offices directly, or allow qualified non-profit agencies or approved a...

...The department of administrative services, on its own or pursuant to a request from a government ordering office, may release a government ordering office from compliance with sections 125.60 to 125.6012 of the Revised Code. If the department determines that compliance is not possible or not advantageous, or if conditions prescribed in rules as may be adopted under section 125.603 of the Revised Code for granting a r...

...Section 125.607 of the Revised Code does not apply to the purchase of a product or service available from a state agency, state instrumentality, or political subdivision under any law in effect on July 1, 2005.

...(A) Nothing in sections 125.60 to 125.6012 of the Revised Code shall be construed to prohibit the purchase of a supply or service from a qualified nonprofit agency by a political subdivision that is not a government ordering office. (B) Purchases made under this section by a political subdivision, as defined in section 125.04 of the Revised Code, are exempt from any competitive selection procedures otherwise require...

...A government ordering office and qualified nonprofit agency shall provide the necessary information and documentation requested by the office of procurement from community rehabilitation programs to enable the office to effectively administer sections 125.60 to 125.6012 of the Revised Code.

...The department of administrative services shall work with the departments of job and family services and medicaid to deploy private sector tools for digital identity management, authentication, and verification for individuals receiving medicaid benefits, supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits, or benefits funded by the temporary assistance for needy families block grant. These private sector tools shall ...