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...Any person who is required, pursuant to division (A) of section 2151.421 of the Revised Code, to report the person's knowledge of or reasonable cause to suspect abuse or neglect or threat of abuse or neglect of a child under eighteen years of age or a person with a developmental disability or physical impairment under twenty-one years of age, or any person who is permitted, pursuant to division (B) of that section, t...

...(A) The department of youth services shall do all of the following: (1) Control and manage all institutions for the rehabilitation of delinquent children and youthful offenders that are operated by the state, except where the control and management of an institution is vested by law in another agency; (2) Provide treatment and training for children committed to the department and assigned by the department to vari...

...The department of youth services may conduct programs for the vocational education of children committed to the department or involved in aftercare services provided by the department, under which services are provided or products are made, and offered, for sale. Any profits made from the selling of such products or services shall be deposited into the industrial and entertainment fund created under section 5139.86 o...

...(A)(1) The department of youth services shall permit representatives of all nonprofit faith-based, business, professional, civic, educational, and community organizations that are registered with the department to enter institutions that are under the department's control and management for the purpose of providing reentry services to delinquent children in the department's custody. Reentry services may include, but ...

...The department of youth services may accept, hold, and use, for the benefit of the department or the children committed to it, any gift, donation, bequest, or devise, and may agree to and perform all conditions of the gift, donation, bequest, or devise, not contrary to law.

...nt and approval of the board of county commissioners of any county, may contract with the public children services agency of that county, the department of probation of that county established pursuant to section 2301.27 of the Revised Code, or the probation department or service established pursuant to sections 2151.01 to 2151.54 of the Revised Code for the provision of direct supervision and control over and ...

...hall be under the control of a managing officer to be known as a superintendent or by other appropriate title. Such managing officer shall be appointed by the director of the department and shall be in the unclassified service and serve at the pleasure of the director. Each managing officer appointed under this section may, subject to the approval of the director, appoint an assistant managing officer and deputy mana...

...Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, officer of state or local police, or employee of the department of youth services shall apprehend any child who has escaped from an institution under the jurisdiction of the department and return the child. The written request of the superintendent of the institution from which the child has escaped shall be sufficient cause to authorize the apprehension and return of the child...

...ency releases shall continue until the expiration of thirty days from the day on which the declaration was filed. The director shall not issue a declaration that an emergency overcrowding condition exists unless the director determines that no other method of alleviating the overcrowding condition is available. (B)(1) If the department is authorized under division (A) of this section to grant emergency releas...

...No person shall influence or attempt to influence any child under supervision of the department of youth services, to leave the institution or home in which he was placed, his home, or place of employment or to violate any of the conditions upon which he was released under supervision.

...Each county shall bear all of the expenses incident to the transportation of a child committed to the department of youth services by the juvenile court of that county from that county to the institution to which the department has assigned the child and shall bear the fees and costs allowed in similar cases. The fees, costs, and expenses shall be paid from the county treasury upon itemized vouchers certified to by t...

...ements with the Ohio public facilities commission, the department of administrative services, or any other authorized state agency ancillary to the construction, reconstruction, improvement, financing, leasing, or operation of such facilities, including, but not limited to agreements required by the applicable bond proceedings authorized by Chapter 154. of the Revised Code. Rentals from such leases shall const...

...The department of youth services may designate the institutions under its management and control, present and future, by appropriate respective names, regardless of present statutory designation.

... be conducted of a visitor, the highest officer present in the institution shall expressly authorize the search on the basis of a reasonable suspicion, based on specific objective facts and reasonable inferences drawn from those facts in the light of experience, that a visitor proposed to be so searched possesses, and intends to convey or already has conveyed, a deadly weapon, dangerous ordnance, drug of abuse, into...

...The department of youth services, with the approval of the governor and the attorney general, may buy, sell, lease, or exchange portions of land or property, real or personal, under the management and control of the department, or enter into contracts relative thereto, or grant easements or licenses for the use thereof, when such purchase, sale, lease, exchange, contract, easement, or license is advantageous to the s...

... state and, through its board of county commissioners, may enter into an agreement with the director of budget and management for the discharge of that obligation over a period not to exceed ten years in duration. Whenever a county is obligated to repay that assistance to the state and its board of county commissioners fails to enter into or fails to comply with an agreement for the discharge of that obligation, the ...

... of the Revised Code. A board of county commissioners that uses the facility for any other purpose within that period shall enter into an agreement with the director of budget and management for the discharge of that obligation over a period not to exceed ten years. If a board of county commissioners fails to enter into an agreement for the discharge of that obligation, or fails to comply with the terms of such an ag...

...er this section. If the board of county commissioners providing a detention facility or the board of trustees of a district detention facility applies to the department for assistance and if the department finds that the application is in accordance with the rules adopted under this section and that the facility meets the minimum standards adopted under this section, the department may grant assistance to the applica...

...The department of youth services shall adopt and promulgate regulations prescribing the method of calculating the amount of and the time and manner for the payment of financial assistance granted under sections 5139.27 and 5139.271 of the Revised Code, for the construction or acquisition of a district detention facility established under section 2152.41 of the Revised Code, or for the construction and maintenance of ...

...The department of youth services may, by mutual agreement with the governing board of a school, forestry camp, or other facility established under section 2151.65 of the Revised Code, transfer to such school, forestry camp, or other facility any child committed to the department.

...The department of youth services may inspect any school, forestry camp, district detention facility, or other facility for which an application for financial assistance has been made to the department under section 2152.43 or 2151.651 of the Revised Code or for which financial assistance has been granted by the department under section 5139.27, 5139.271, or 5139.281 of the Revised Code. The inspection may include, ...

...(A) Whenever a child committed to the department of youth services is unable to benefit from the programs conducted by the department, as found under division (B) of this section, the department forthwith shall release or discharge such child from its jurisdiction and either return the child to the committing court, provided that such court so consents or directs, or otherwise secure for the child an environment more...

...adjudicated delinquent children for the commission of acts that would be felonies if committed by an adult. (B) Each county seeking a grant under this section shall file an application with the department of youth services. The application shall be filed at the time and in accordance with procedures established by the department in rules adopted under this section. Each application shall be accompanied by a plan des...

...to appropriation by the board of county commissioners of that county, a county treasurer shall disburse from the county's felony delinquent care and custody fund the state subsidy funds granted to the county pursuant to this section for use only in accordance with this section, the applicable provisions of section 5139.43 of the Revised Code, and the county's approved annual grant agreement and application for fundin...

...(A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section and division (C)(2) of section 5139.06 of the Revised Code, the department of youth services shall not place a child committed to it pursuant to section 2152.16 or divisions (A) and (B) of section 2152.17 of the Revised Code who has not been institutionalized or institutionalized in a secure facility for the prescribed minimum period of institutionalization in a...