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...(A) The auditor of state shall do all of the following: (1) Develop a force account project assessment form that each public office that undertakes force account projects shall use to estimate or report the cost of a force account project. The form shall include costs for employee salaries and benefits, any other labor costs, materials, freight, fuel, hauling, overhead expense, workers' compensation premiums, and ...

...(A) Each public office, other than a state agency, shall file a financial report for each fiscal year. The auditor of state may prescribe forms by rule or may issue guidelines, or both, for such reports. If the auditor of state has not prescribed a rule regarding the form for the report, the public office shall submit its report on the form utilized by the public office. (B) The report shall be certified by the pro...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Entity" means, whether for profit or nonprofit, a corporation, association, partnership, limited liability company, sole proprietorship, or other business entity. "Entity" does not include an individual who receives state assistance that is not related to the individual's business. (2) "State award for economic development" means state financial assistance and expenditure in any ...

...(A) The auditor of state shall develop guidelines for identifying fiscal practices and budgetary conditions of municipal corporations, counties, and townships that, if uncorrected, could result in a future declaration of a fiscal watch or fiscal emergency. (B) If the auditor of state determines that a municipal corporation, county, or township is engaging in any of those practices or that any of those conditi...

...(A) Pursuant to the powers of the general assembly and for the purposes of this chapter, upon the occurrence of a fiscal emergency in any municipal corporation, county, or township, as determined pursuant to section 118.04 of the Revised Code, there is established, with respect to that municipal corporation, county, or township, a body both corporate and politic constituting an agency and instrumentality of the state...

...(A) The financial planning and supervision commission, or when authorized by the commission, the financial supervisor, shall have the following powers, duties, and functions: (1) To review all tax budgets, tax levy ordinances, bond and note ordinances or resolutions, appropriation measures of the municipal corporation, county, or township, and certificates of estimated resources to require that such are consistent w...

...(A) No debt obligation may be issued or incurred by the municipal corporation, county, or township, whether purchased by the municipal corporation, county, or township or others, except with the prior approval of the financial planning and supervision commission. (B) The commission shall disapprove the issuance of debt obligations upon a determination that, in its judgment, such action would impede the purposes of a...

...(A) During a fiscal emergency period and with the approval of the financial planning and supervision commission, a municipal corporation, county, or township may issue local government fund notes, in anticipation of amounts to be allocated to it pursuant to division (B) of section 5747.50 of the Revised Code or to be apportioned to it under section 5747.51 or 5747.53 of the Revised Code in a future year or year...

...As used in sections 118.19 to 118.25 of the Revised Code: (A) "Debt service" means the principal of and interest and any call premium on debt obligations payable or required to be deposited for such payment at various times. (B) "Fiscal agent" means any one or more of the treasurer of state, county auditor, banks, trust companies, or other financial institutions authorized to exercise trust powers in the state, des...

...Pursuant to section 118.19 of the Revised Code: (A) The ordinance or resolution authorizing the debt obligations may provide for the pledge of, and covenants to levy, charge, collect, deposit, and apply ad valorem property taxes, income taxes, excises, utility revenues, local government fund receipts, permit and license fees, and any other receipts from taxes, permits, licenses, fines, or other sources of revenue of...

...(A) This section shall be applicable to current revenue notes approved by the financial planning and supervision commission or, when authorized by the commission, the financial supervisor pursuant to section 118.15 of the Revised Code and issued by a municipal corporation, county, or township pursuant to section 133.10 of the Revised Code and this section during a fiscal emergency period. (B) In the case of the issu...

...(A) A financial planning and supervision commission with respect to a municipal corporation, county, or township, and its functions under this chapter, shall continue in existence until such time as a determination is made pursuant to division (B) of this section of one of the following: (1) In the case of a village, the date a dissolution is effective as defined under section 703.31 of the Revised Code. (2) In ...

...(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, in case any section or provision of this chapter, including any condition or prerequisite to any action or determination thereunder, or in case any act or action, or part thereof, made or taken under this chapter, or any application thereof, is for any reason held to be illegal or invalid, such illegality or invalidity shall not affect the remainder thereof or any other se...

...(A) During the fiscal emergency period, no officer or employee of the municipal corporation, county, or township shall do any of the following: (1) Knowingly enter into any contract, financial obligation, or other liability of the municipal corporation, county, or township involving an expenditure, or make any expenditure in excess of the amount permitted by division (E) of section 118.06 or division (B) of section ...

...The superintendent of financial institutions shall be the chief executive officer of the division of financial institutions. (A) The superintendent shall have at least five years of experience in the financial services industry or in the examination or regulation of financial institutions. (B) The superintendent shall appoint a deputy superintendent for banks, who shall possess at least one of the following qualifi...

...(A) As used in this section, "consumer finance company" means any person required to be licensed or registered under Chapter 1321., 1322., 4712., 4727., or 4728. or sections 1315.21 to 1315.30 of the Revised Code. (B) Neither the superintendent of financial institutions nor any other employee of the division of financial institutions shall do any of the following: have a business or investment interest, directly or ...

...(A) The superintendent of financial institutions may require persons licensed or registered by the division of financial institutions to participate in a multistate licensing system. (B)(1) If the superintendent requires use of a multistate licensing system, the superintendent may establish, by rule, regulation, or order, requirements as necessary to enable information required by existing statutes providing for li...

...Each agency shall prepare and publish, and as it becomes necessary or advisable, revise and republish, a guide to its rule-making process that functions generally to assist members of the public who participate, or who may wish to participate, in the agency's rule-making. The agency's guide is to include: (A) A statement of the agency's regulatory mission; (B) A description of how the agency is organized to achieve...

...(A) In addition to the state public defender's other duties under this chapter and other Revised Code provisions, the state public defender shall do all of the following for each state fiscal year: (1) Determine the total dollar amount of all requests for reimbursements that were submitted for that fiscal year by counties under sections 120.18, 120.28, 120.33, 120.35, and 2941.51 of the Revised Code; (2) Determin...

...(A) The determination of indigency shall be made by the state public defender, subject to review by the court. This section does not apply in relation to sections 120.51 to 120.55 of the Revised Code. (B) The state public defender shall investigate the financial status of each person to be represented, at the earliest time the circumstances permit, and may require the person represented to disclose the records of pu...

...(A) The county commissioners in any county may establish a county public defender commission. The commission shall have five members, three of whom shall be appointed by the board of county commissioners, and two by the judge, or the presiding judge if there is one, of the court of common pleas of the county. At least one member appointed by each of these appointing bodies shall be an attorney admitted to the practic...

...(A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, the county public defender commission shall appoint the county public defender and may remove him from office only for good cause. (2) If a county public defender commission contracts with the state public defender or with one or more nonprofit organizations for the state public defender or the organizations to provide all of the services that the county ...

...(A)(1) The county public defender shall provide legal representation to indigent adults and juveniles who are charged with the commission of an offense or act that is a violation of a state statute and for which the penalty or any possible adjudication includes the potential loss of liberty and in postconviction proceedings as defined in this section. (2) The county public defender may provide legal representation t...

...(A) The county public defender commission's report to the board of county commissioners shall be audited by the county auditor. The board of county commissioners, after review and approval of the audited report, may then certify it to the state public defender for reimbursement. If a request for the reimbursement of any operating expenditure incurred by a county public defender office is not received by the state pub...

...(A) The boards of county commissioners in two or more adjoining or neighboring counties may form themselves into a joint board and proceed to organize a district for the establishment of a joint county public defender commission. The commission shall have three members from each county, who shall be appointed by the board of county commissioners of the county. (B) The boards shall agree on a specific date for the jo...