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...The attorney general shall be the legal adviser of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors.

...(A) There is hereby created the workers' compensation audit committee consisting of at least three members. One member shall be the member of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors who is a certified public accountant. The board, by majority vote, shall appoint two additional members of the board to serve on the audit committee and may appoint additional members who are not board members, as the board...

...torial nature granted to the industrial commission in this chapter and Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code; (G) Do all things convenient and necessary to accomplish the purposes directed in sections 4101.01 to 4101.16 and 4121.01 to 4121.28 of the Revised Code; (H) Nothing in this section shall be construed to supersede section 4105.011 of the Revised Code in particular, or Chapter 4105. of the Revised Code in genera...

...The bureau of workers' compensation special investigation department is a criminal justice agency in investigating reported violations of law relating to workers' compensation, and as such may apply for access to the computerized databases administered by the national crime information center or the law enforcement automated data system in Ohio and to other computerized databases administered for the purpose of...

...bureau, and the same powers as a master commissioner appointed by a court of common pleas with regard to taking testimony. The bureau may conduct any number of investigations contemporaneously through different agents, and may delegate to agents the taking of all testimony bearing upon any investigation or hearing. The decision of the bureau shall be based upon its examination of all testimony and records. The reco...

...The administrator of workers' compensation and his designees, for the purposes mentioned in sections 4121.01 to 4121.29 of the Revised Code may administer oaths, certify to official acts, issue subpoenas, and compel attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, books, accounts, documents, and testimony. In case of the failure of any person to comply with any order of the bureau of workers' compensation or any...

...Each witness who appears before the bureau of workers' compensation by its order shall receive for the witness's attendance the fees and mileage provided for under section 119.094 of the Revised Code, which shall be paid from the state insurance fund on the approval of the administrator of workers' compensation. No witnesses subpoenaed at the instance of the parties other than the bureau is entitled to compensa...

...(A) Upon petition by any person that any employment or place of employment is not safe or is injurious to the welfare of any employee or frequenter, the bureau of workers' compensation shall proceed with or without notice to make an investigation as is necessary to determine the matter complained of. (B) After such hearing as is necessary, the bureau may enter any necessary order relative thereto to render the emplo...

...A full and complete record shall be kept of all proceedings had before the bureau of workers' compensation on any investigation.

...The bureau of workers' compensation or any party may in any investigation cause depositions of witnesses residing within or without the state to be taken in the manner prescribed by law for like depositions in civil actions.

...(A) All general orders of the bureau of workers' compensation shall take effect within thirty days after their publication. Special orders shall take effect as therein directed. (B) The bureau shall, upon application of any employer, grant such time as is reasonably necessary for compliance with any order. (C) Any person may petition the bureau for an extension of time, which the bureau shall grant if it finds the ...

...Sections 4101.01 to 4101.16 and 4121.01 to 4121.29 of the Revised Code do not deprive the legislative authority of any municipal corporation or any board of trustees or officer of any municipal corporation of any power or jurisdiction over or relative to any place of employment, provided that whenever the bureau of workers' compensation, by an order, fixes a standard of safety or any hygienic condition for employment...

...Any employer or other person interested either because of ownership in or occupation of any property affected by any order of the bureau of workers' compensation, or otherwise, may petition for a hearing on the reasonableness and lawfulness of any bureau order. The petition for hearing shall be by verified petition, filed with the bureau, setting out specifically and in full detail the order upon which a hearing is ...

...No action, proceeding, or suit to set aside, vacate, or amend any order of the bureau of workers' compensation, or to enjoin the enforcement thereof, shall be brought unless the plaintiff has applied to the bureau for a hearing thereon at the time and as provided in section 4121.23 of the Revised Code and in the petition therefor has raised every issue raised in the action. Every order of the bureau is, in every pro...

...Any employer or other person in interest who is dissatisfied with any order of the bureau of workers' compensation may commence an action in the supreme court, against the bureau as defendant, to set aside, vacate, or amend any order on the ground that the order is unreasonable or unlawful and the supreme court has exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine the action. The bureau shall be served with summons as in ...

...If upon the trial of an action under section 4121.25 of the Revised Code it appears that all issues arising in the action have not theretofore been presented to the bureau of workers' compensation in the petition filed as provided in section 4121.23 of the Revised Code, or that the bureau has not theretofore had ample opportunity to hear and determine any of the issues raised in the action, or has for any reason not ...

...No court of this state, except the supreme court to the extent specified by sections 4101.01 to 4101.16 and 4121.01 to 4121.29 of the Revised Code has jurisdiction to review, vacate, set aside, reverse, revise, correct, amend, or annul any order of the bureau of workers' compensation, or to suspend or delay the execution or operation thereof or to enjoin, restrain, or interfere with the bureau in the performance of i...

...The pendency of an action to set aside, vacate, or amend an order of the bureau of workers' compensation shall not of itself stay or suspend the operation of an order of the bureau, but during the pendency of the action the supreme court may stay or suspend, in whole or in part, the operation of the bureau's order. No order so staying or suspending an order of the bureau shall be made by the supreme court otherwise t...

...lving or affecting the public utilities commission, irrespective of position on the calendar. The same preference shall be granted upon application of the attorney of the bureau in any action or proceeding in which he may be allowed to intervene.

...rkers' compensation and the industrial commission shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, except that determinations of the bureau, district hearing officers, staff hearing officers, and the commission, with respect to an individual employee's claim to participate in the state insurance fund are governed only by Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code. The administrator of workers' com...

...orkers' compensation and the industrial commission jointly shall adopt rules covering the following general topics with respect to this chapter and Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code: (1) Rules that set forth any general policy and the principal operating procedures of the bureau of workers' compensation or commission, including but not limited to: (a) Assignment to various operational units of any duties placed u...

...orkers' compensation and the industrial commission are required to adopt pursuant to section 4121.31 of the Revised Code shall be supplemented with operating manuals setting forth the procedural steps in detail for performing each of the assigned tasks of each section of the bureau of workers' compensation and commission. The administrator and commission jointly shall adopt such manuals. No employee may deviate from ...

...e full-time employees of the industrial commission, and shall be persons admitted to the practice of law in this state. District hearing officers shall not engage in any other activity that interferes with their full-time employment by the commission during normal working hours. (B) District hearing officers shall have original jurisdiction on all of the following matters: (1) Determinations under section 4123.57 o...

... full-time employees of the industrial commission and shall be admitted to the practice of law in this state. Staff hearing officers shall not engage in any other activity that interferes with their full-time employment by the commission during normal working hours. (B) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, staff hearing officers have original jurisdiction to hear and decide the following matter...

...(A) The industrial commission shall adopt rules as to the conduct of all hearings before the commission and its staff and district hearing officers and the rendering of a decision and shall focus such rules on managing, directing, and otherwise ensuring a fair, equitable, and uniform hearing process. These rules shall provide for at least the following steps and procedures: (1) Adequate notice to all parties and th...