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...(A) The department of transportation shall: (1) Exercise and perform such other duties, powers, and functions as are conferred by law on the director, the department, the assistant directors, the deputy directors, or on the divisions of the department; (2) Coordinate and develop, in cooperation with local, regional, state, and federal planning agencies and authorities, comprehensive and balanced state policy ...

...The department of transportation shall: (A) Consider energy conservation as an integral factor along with economics, engineering, safety, and the environment in the planning, design, and utilization of transportation facilities; (B) Reevaluate existing plans for highways and other transportation modes and require regional transportation studies and local planning agencies operating under state coordination or with ...

...In addition to those duties, powers, and functions the director of transportation assigns to it, the office of transit: (A) May issue grants from any public transportation grant appropriation to county transit boards, regional transit authorities, regional transit commissions, counties, municipal corporations, and private nonprofit organizations that operate or will operate a public transportation system. The di...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Career professional service" means that part of the competitive classified service that consists of employees of the department of transportation who, regardless of job classification, meet both of the following qualifications: (a) They are supervisors, professional employees who are not in a collective bargaining unit, confidential employees, or management level employees, all...

...(A) If circumstances alter the highway requirements after the director of transportation has acquired property so that the real property or part of the real property is no longer required for highway purposes, the director, in the name of the state, may sell all the right, title, and interest of the state in any of the real property. After determining that a parcel of real property i...

...(A) The director of transportation shall establish and administer a grass removal assistance support and safety program. Under the program, the department of transportation shall provide supplemental grass, weed, and other natural growth removal to a village when all of the following apply: (1) The grass, weeds, or other natural growth are within the right-of-way of a state highway. (2) The state highway is withi...

...(A) The department of transportation is the designated state agency responsible for overseeing the safety practices of rail fixed guideway systems and the administration of 49 U.S.C. 5329 and 5330. The director of transportation shall develop any guidelines necessary to oversee the safety practices of rail fixed guideway systems that are consistent with the federal act and rules adopted thereunder. A rail fixed guide...

...As used in sections 5501.70 to 5501.83 of the Revised Code: (A) "Affected jurisdiction" means any unit of government within the state in which all or part of a transportation facility is located or any other public entity directly affected by the transportation facility. (B) "Force majeure" means an uncontrollable force or natural disaster not within the power of the operator or the state. (C) "Maintenance" ...

...(A) The department of transportation may solicit, receive, consider, evaluate, and accept a proposal for a public-private initiative. (B) In soliciting and selecting a private entity with which to enter into a public-private initiative, the department shall use one or both of the following: (1) Sealed bidding; (2) Selection of proposals, with or without negotiations, based on qualifications, best value, or ...

...(A) The department of transportation may receive, consider, evaluate, and accept an unsolicited proposal for a public-private initiative if the proposal meets all of the following: (1) Addresses the needs identified in the appropriate state, regional, or local transportation plan by improving safety, reducing congestion, increasing capacity, or enhancing economic efficiency and the proposal is on the transpo...

...(A) As used in this section, "port authority" means a port authority created under Chapter 4582. of the Revised Code. (B) There is hereby established the Ohio maritime assistance program, which the department of transportation shall administer. Under the program, a port authority may apply to the department for a grant to be used as prescribed in division (D) of this section. In order to be eligible for a grant un...

...(A) The department of public safety shall administer and enforce the laws relating to the registration, licensing, sale, and operation of motor vehicles and the laws pertaining to the licensing of drivers of motor vehicles. The department shall compile, analyze, and publish statistics relative to motor vehicle accidents and the causes of them, prepare and conduct educational programs for the purpose of promoting sa...

...(A) As used in this section, "department of public safety" and "department" include all divisions within the department of public safety. (B) The director of public safety is the chief executive and administrative officer of the department. The director may establish policies governing the department, the performance of its employees and officers, the conduct of its business, and the custody, use, and preservation...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Communication disability" has the same meaning as in section 3304.23 of the Revised Code. (2) "Disability that can impair communication" has the same meaning as in section 3304.23 of the Revised Code. (3) "Guardian" has the same meaning as in section 2111.01 of the Revised Code. (4) "Ward" has the same meaning as in section 2111.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The department of publ...

...(A) As used in this section, "political subdivision" has the same meaning as in section 5502.41 of the Revised Code. (B) Political subdivisions, in collaboration with other public and private agencies within this state, may develop mutual assistance or aid agreements for reciprocal emergency management assistance or aid for purposes of preparing for, responding to, and recovering from an incident, disaster, e...

...(A) There is hereby created the statewide emergency alert program to aid in the identification and location of children who are under eighteen years of age, who are abducted, and whose abduction, as determined by a law enforcement agency, poses a credible threat of immediate danger of serious bodily harm or death to a child. The program shall be a coordinated effort among the governor's office, the department o...

...(A) There is hereby created the AMBER alert advisory committee, consisting of members to be appointed by the governor. The committee shall advise the governor, the attorney general, the department of public safety, and law enforcement agencies on an ongoing basis on the implementation, operation, improvement, and evaluation of the statewide emergency alert program created under section 5502.52 of the Revised Code. (...

...(A) There is hereby created the statewide emergency alert program to aid in the identification and location of any individual who has a mental impairment, has autism spectrum disorder or another developmental disability, or is sixty-five years of age or older, who is or is believed to be a temporary or permanent resident of this state, is at a location that cannot be determined by an individual familiar with the miss...

...(A) As used in this section: "Cable system" has the meaning defined in section 2913.04 of the Revised Code. "Law enforcement agency" means an organization or unit made up of law enforcement officers as defined in section 2901.01 of the Revised Code. (B) There is created the statewide blue alert program that consists of a statewide system for the rapid dissemination of information to speed the apprehension of...

...(A) There is hereby created in the department of public safety a division of criminal justice services. The director of public safety, with the concurrence of the governor, shall appoint an executive director of the division of criminal justice services. The executive director shall be the head of the division. The executive director shall serve at the pleasure of the director of public safety. To carry out the dutie...

...(A) The division of criminal justice services in the department of public safety shall prepare a poster and a brochure that describe safe firearms practices. The poster and brochure shall contain typeface that is at least one-quarter inch tall. The division shall furnish copies of the poster and brochure free of charge to each federally licensed firearms dealer in this state. As used in this division, "federally li...

...(A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the drug law enforcement fund. Ninety-seven per cent of three dollars and fifty cents out of each ten-dollar court cost imposed pursuant to section 2949.094 of the Revised Code shall be credited to the fund. Money in the fund shall be used only in accordance with this section to award grants to counties, municipal corporations, townships, township police districts, an...

...(A) There is hereby created in the department of public safety the Ohio mobile training team, which shall be administered by a chief mobile training officer. The team shall provide services to public and nonpublic schools regarding school safety and security. (B) Not later than December 11, 2022, the director of public safety shall appoint an individual who satisfies the criteria specified in division (B) of sectio...

...(A) Notwithstanding any section of the Revised Code or rule of procedure to the contrary, a defendant's traffic or criminal record contained in the law enforcement automated data system, also known as LEADS, may be disclosed to the defendant and the defendant's counsel when formally requested pursuant to the rules of discovery in a traffic or criminal case. (B) Copies of information obtained from the law enforcemen...

...(A) The funds created by this section are the "employees' savings fund," "employer's accumulation fund," "pension reserve fund," "survivors' benefit fund," "income fund," and "expense fund." When reference is made to any of such funds, such reference is made to each as a separate legal entity; provided that the moneys in the funds may be intermingled for deposit and investment purposes. (B) The employees' savings fu...