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... ending in four and nine. The terms immediately preceding the initial appointments made under divisions (A) to (E) of this section may be for periods of less than five years. The appointing authority shall remove a member who fails to maintain certification or whose certification is revoked by the director of veterans services.

...n and in which the veterans service commission submits a budget request under section 5901.11 of the Revised Code for the ensuing fiscal year that exceeds twenty-five-thousandths of one per cent of the assessed value of property in the county or the amount appropriated to the commission from the county general fund in the current fiscal year by more than ten per ...

...The veterans service commission shall select one of its members as president, one as vice-president, and one as secretary. The commission shall meet at least once each month. A judge of the court of common pleas may remove, for cause, any member of the commission appointed under section 5901.02 of the Revised Code, and shall fill vacancies occurring among memberships appointed under that section for the unexpired t...

...itemized statement, the board of county commissioners shall allow the persons composing the veterans service commission their reasonable expenses incurred in the performance of their duties, and shall fix a fair compensation for their services. The county auditor shall issue a warrant upon the county treasurer for the amount so allowed.

...uary in each year, the veterans service commission may appoint for the county a veterans service committee, consisting of at least three persons who are residents of the county, whose duties shall be set forth by the commission. Such persons shall be veterans, one of whom shall be designated as chairperson of the county veterans service committee. The commission shall fill all vacancies that occur in any such committ...

...The veterans service commission may employ an executive director, who shall be a veteran and shall be employed in the unclassified service, and such investigators and clerks as are necessary to perform the duties of the commission. Each investigator and clerk shall be a veteran or, if a qualified veteran is not available, the spouse, surviving spouse, child, or parent of a veteran. Each shall be employed in the class...

...The veterans service commission shall employ one or more county veterans service officers, one of whom may act as executive director. Each service officer shall be a veteran. Within sixty days after the date of initial employment, each service officer shall file a copy of the officer's form DD214 with the department of veterans services in accordance with guidelines established by the director of that department. Eac...

...Each applicant for financial assistance under sections 5901.02 to 5901.15 of the Revised Code shall be a veteran, an active-duty member of the armed forces of the United States, or the spouse, surviving spouse, dependent parent, minor child, or ward of a veteran or active-duty member of the armed forces of the United States, who has been a bona fide resident of the county in which application is being made for at lea...

...e shall provide the veterans service commission with a statement concerning the applicant's household income and the amount of real and personal taxable property, stocks, bonds, moneys on hand loaned or deposited in any bank or elsewhere, shares in building associations, mortgages, notes, or other articles of value from which the applicant derives an income or revenue. The statement ...

... May in each year, the veterans service commission shall meet and determine in an itemized manner the probable amount necessary for the aid and financial assistance of persons entitled to such aid and assistance and for the operation of the veterans service office for the ensuing year. After determining the probable amount necessary for such purposes, the commission shall prepare and submit a budget in the manner spe...

...erson certified by the veterans service commission to the county auditor, the auditor shall issue a warrant upon the county treasurer for the allowance awarded to that person by the commission. Upon proper cause shown, the commission may appoint a suitable person to draw, receipt for, and properly expend the allowance made to any person under sections 5901.02 to 5901.15 of the Revised Code, after the voucher or certi...

...ll adopt and implement rules to grant immediate assistance, financial or otherwise, to any person entitled to it under sections 5901.02 to 5901.14 of the Revised Code, and to any member, spouse, or dependent of any member of the Ohio national guard, the Ohio military reserve, the Ohio naval militia, or a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States serving active military duty because of an executive or...

...ganization exists, the veterans service commission of any county shall purchase or provide a veterans plot in any cemetery in such county or municipal corporation where no burial plot is provided, for the burial, removal, and reinterment of the bodies of neglected and indigent veterans. The expense of such purchase shall be filed with and audited by the county auditor, who shall issue a warrant for it upon the count...

...On and after the interment of the remains of one or more deceased veterans in a veterans plot, the reasonable expenses of the care of the grave shall be annually provided for by the municipal corporation or township in which the remains are buried, and shall be paid annually to the cemetery association in which the remains may be interred, removed, or reinterred.

...resented to the county veterans service commission signed by the officers of a local or state veterans organization, or by a majority of a memorial committee of any municipal corporation in which one or more such organizations exist, or by veterans in townships or villages in which no veterans organization exists. Such petition shall contain: (A) The name of the deceased veteran or veterans whose remains are sought ...

...g regular meeting, the veterans service commission shall act upon any petition presented as provided by section 5901.18 of the Revised Code, and, if true, it shall issue an order to maintain a dignified burial site with the agreement of the petitioners, or direct the removal of the remains of the deceased veteran or veterans to the cemetery designated in the petition, within the municipal corporation or township, in ...

...uch statement with the veterans service commission, which shall, at the next regular meeting, act upon such expense account and file it with the county auditor forthwith, at which time it shall become a charge upon the county in which the interment or reinterment is made. Such expense shall be audited and the auditor shall issue a warrant for it on the county treasurer, who shall pay such warrant out of the general ...

...If it becomes necessary to purchase additional plots of ground in any cemetery in which a veterans plot has been filled with graves to its capacity, sections 5901.16 to 5901.24 of the Revised Code do not prevent the purchase of such additional plots.

...The board of county commissioners, the board of townships trustees, or the legislative authority of a municipal corporation may enter into contracts with cemetery associations providing for the purchase and maintenance, in cemeteries within the county, of plots of ground for the burial of deceased veterans and the deceased spouses of veterans. Any such purchase may be made either by cash or by installment payments. T...

...Any veterans plot owned or maintained by any county, township, or municipal corporation shall be open for the burial of the body of any deceased veteran on application by a relative of the decedent or other proper person responsible for the disposition of the remains to the county, township, or municipal corporation owning or maintaining the plot.

...f the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners, any board of township trustees, or the legislative authority of any municipal corporation in the county in which the cemetery is situated may purchase a space for the grave of the veteran or the veteran's cremated remains, provide for the care of the plot, and pay the amount of the purchase price and maintenance cost from the funds in the treasury of the county, ...

...The board of county commissioners shall require the veterans service commission, upon application and with the approval of the family or friends of the deceased, to contract, at a fair and reasonable price, with the funeral director selected by the family or friends, and cause to be interred or cremated in a decent and respectable manner the body of any veteran, or the parent, spouse, or surviving spouse of any such ...

... the Revised Code, the veterans service commission shall use the forms of contracts prescribed by sections 5901.25 to 5901.32 of the Revised Code, and abide by the regulations provided by such sections. The commission shall see that funeral directors furnish all items specified in the contract, that when the benefits of such sections are claimed the entire amount to be contributed by the county toward the cost of the...

...d of means actually necessary for its immediate support. Thereupon the commission shall cause the deceased to be buried or cremated and make a report thereof to the board of county commissioners. The report shall set forth that the commission found the family of the deceased person in indigent circumstances and unable to pay the expenses of burial or cremation. The report shall also set forth the name of the deceased...

...th of the inmate to the board of county commissioners of the county from which the parent, spouse, or surviving spouse was admitted to the home, and the board shall proceed as provided in section 5901.32 of the Revised Code.

...(A) Except as provided in divisions (B) and (C) of this section and sections 5153.171 to 5153.173 of the Revised Code, any information, document, or report presented to a child fatality review board, all statements made by review board members during meetings of the review board, all work products of the review board, and child fatality review data submitted by the child fatality review board to the department of hea...

...sing the system. (B) A board of county commissioners may establish a countywide public safety communications system. The system shall be operated in accordance with division (B)(1), (2), or (3) of this section. (1) In any county with a population of less than seven hundred fifty thousand, the county sheriff shall operate the countywide public safety communications system unless, before commencing operation of the s...

...(A) A board of county commissioners may appoint a health commissioner of the board of health of a city or general health district that is entirely or partially located in the county in which the board of county commissioners is located to establish a drug overdose fatality review committee to review drug overdose deaths and opioid-involved deaths occurring in the county. (B) The boards of county commissioners of t...

...(A)(1) If a health commissioner establishes a drug overdose fatality review committee as described in division (A) of section 307.631 of the Revised Code, the commissioner shall select four members to serve on the review committee along with the commissioner. The review committee shall consist of the following: (a) The chief of police of a police department in the county or the county sheriff or a designee of the c...

...f the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners, or if a regional drug overdose fatality review committee is established, the group of health commissioners appointed to select the health commissioner to establish the regional review committee, shall designate either the health commissioner that establishes the review committee or a representative of the health commissioner to convene meetings and be the chairpe...

...The purpose of a drug overdose fatality review committee is to decrease the incidence of preventable overdose deaths by doing all of the following: (A) Promoting cooperation, collaboration, and communication between all groups, professions, agencies, or entities engaged in drug abuse prevention, education, or treatment efforts; (B) Maintaining a comprehensive database of all overdose deaths that occur in the coun...

...A drug overdose fatality review committee may not conduct a review of a death while an investigation of the death or prosecution of a person for causing the death is pending unless the prosecuting attorney agrees to allow the review. The law enforcement agency conducting the criminal investigation, on the conclusion of the investigation, and the prosecuting attorney prosecuting the case, on the conclusion of the pros...

...(A) A drug overdose fatality review committee shall establish a system for collecting and maintaining information necessary for the review of drug overdose or opioid-involved deaths in the county or region. In an effort to ensure confidentiality, each committee shall do all of the following: (1) Maintain all records in a secure location; (2) Develop security measures to prevent unauthorized access to records cont...

...(A)(1) Notwithstanding section 3701.17 and any other section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality, any individual, law enforcement agency, or other public or private entity that provided services to a person whose death is being reviewed by a drug overdose fatality review committee, on the request of the review committee, shall submit to the review committee a summary sheet of information. (a) With res...

...(A) An individual or public or private entity providing information, documents, or reports to a drug overdose fatality review committee is immune from any civil liability for injury, death, or loss to person or property that otherwise might be incurred or imposed as a result of providing the information, documents, or reports to the review committee. (B) Each member of a review committee is immune from any civil li...

...Any information, document, or report presented to a drug overdose fatality review committee, all statements made by review committee members during meetings of the review committee, all work products of the review committee, and data submitted by the review committee to the department of health, other than the report prepared pursuant to section 307.636 of the Revised Code, are confidential and shall be used by the r...

...The board of county commissioners of any county may appropriate moneys derived from a tax levied pursuant to division (EE) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code to be expended by the county for the creation and operation of an office or joint office of economic development pursuant to section 307.07 of the Revised Code, for any economic development purpose of the office or joint office, an...

...(A) A board of county commissioners may appoint a health commissioner of the board of health of a city or general health district that is entirely or partially located in the county in which the board of county commissioners is located to establish a suicide fatality review committee to review deaths by suicide occurring in the county. (B) The boards of county commissioners of two or more counties may, by adopting...

...(A)(1) If a health commissioner is appointed under division (A) of section 307.641 of the Revised Code to establish a suicide fatality review committee, the commissioner shall select four members to serve on the review committee along with the commissioner. The review committee shall consist of the following: (a) The chief of police of a police department in the county or region or the county sheriff or a designee ...

...The purpose of a suicide fatality review committee is to decrease the incidence of preventable suicide deaths by doing all of the following: (A) Promoting cooperation, collaboration, and communication between all groups, professions, agencies, or entities engaged in suicide prevention, education, or mental health treatment efforts; (B) Maintaining a comprehensive database of all suicide deaths that occur in the ...

...f the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners, or if a regional suicide fatality review committee is established, the group of health commissioners appointed to select the health commissioner to establish the regional review committee, shall designate either the health commissioner that establishes the review committee or a representative of the health commissioner to convene meetings and be the chairperson o...

...A suicide fatality review committee may not conduct a review of a death while an investigation of the death or prosecution of a person for causing the death is pending unless the prosecuting attorney agrees to allow the review. The law enforcement agency conducting the criminal investigation, on the conclusion of the investigation, and the prosecuting attorney prosecuting the case, on the conclusion of the prosecutio...

...(A) A suicide fatality review committee shall establish a system for collecting and maintaining information necessary for the review of suicide deaths in the county or region. In an effort to ensure confidentiality, each committee shall do all of the following: (1) Maintain all records in a secure location; (2) Develop security measures to prevent unauthorized access to records containing information that could r...

...(A)(1) Notwithstanding section 3701.17 and any other section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality, any individual, law enforcement agency, or other public or private entity that provided services to a person whose death is being reviewed by a suicide fatality review committee, on the request of the review committee, shall submit to the review committee a summary sheet of information. (a) With respect t...

...(A) An individual or public or private entity providing information, documents, or reports to a suicide fatality review committee is immune from any civil liability for injury, death, or loss to person or property that otherwise might be incurred or imposed as a result of providing the information, documents, or reports to the review committee. (B) Each member of a review committee is immune from any civil liabilit...

...Any information, document, or report presented to a suicide fatality review committee, all statements made by review committee members during meetings of the review committee, all work products of the review committee, and data submitted by the review committee to the department of health, other than the report prepared pursuant to section 307.646 of the Revised Code, are confidential and shall be used by the review ...

...A board of county commissioners may appoint a health commissioner of the board of health of a city or general health district that is entirely or partially located in the county in which the board of county commissioners is located to establish a hybrid drug overdose fatality and suicide fatality review committee to review drug overdose deaths, opioid-involved deaths, and deaths by suicide occurring in the county. In...

...The board of county commissioners of any county bordering Lake Erie may construct, open, enlarge, excavate, improve, deepen, straighten, or extend any harbor located in whole or in part within such county, and within the corporate limits of a municipal corporation having an aggregate tax duplicate of less than five hundred million dollars, and any such work shall be a permanent improvement within section 133.15 of th...

...(A) A board of county commissioners may appoint a health commissioner of the board of health of a city or general health district that is entirely or partially located in the county in which the board of county commissioners is located to establish a domestic violence fatality review board to review the deaths of individuals over eighteen years of age by domestic violence that occurred in the county. (B) The boards...

...(A)(1) If a health commissioner establishes a domestic violence fatality review board as described in division (A) of section 307.651 of the Revised Code, the commissioner shall select the following to serve on the review board: (a) The county coroner or designee; (b) The chief of police of a police department in the county or the county sheriff or a designee of the chief or sheriff; (c) A public health offici...