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...As used in sections 5101.89 to 5101.899 of the Revised Code: (A) "Youth" means a person who is any of the following: (1) Less than eighteen years of age; (2) An emancipated young adult; (3) Is in the temporary or permanent custody of a public children services agency, a planned permanent living arrangement, or in the Title-IV-E-eligible care and placement responsibility of a juvenile court or other government...

...As used in sections 5103.03 to 5103.181 of the Revised Code: (A)(1) "Association" or "institution" includes all of the following: (a) Any incorporated or unincorporated organization, society, association, or agency, public or private, that receives or cares for children for two or more consecutive weeks; (b) Any individual, including the operator of a foster home, who, for hire, gain, or reward, receives or ...

...itted by federal law. ARTICLE II. DEFINITIONS As used in this compact: (A) "Approved placement" means the public child placing agency in the receiving state has determined after an assessment that the placement is both safe and suitable for the child. (B) "Assessment" means an evaluation of a prospective placement by a public child placing agency in the receiving state to determine if the placement mee...

...children will be promoted. Article II. Definitions. As used in this compact: (A) "Child" means a person who, by reason of minority, is legally subject to parental, guardianship or similar control. (B) "Sending agency" means a party state, officer or employee thereof; a subdivision of a party state, or officer or employee thereof; a court of a party state; a person, corporation, association, charitable agency, ...

...As used in sections 5103.58 and 5103.59 of the Revised Code: (A) "Professional treatment staff" means a specialized foster home program agency employee or contractor with responsibility for any of the following: (1) Providing rehabilitative services to a child placed in a specialized foster home program or to the child's family; (2) Conducting home studies as an assessor for specialized foster homes; (3) Prov...

...As used in sections 5103.602 to 5103.6018 of the Revised Code: (A) "Infant" means a child who is less than one year of age. (B) "Residential infant care center" means a facility that has as its primary purpose the provision of residential services for infants affected by substance use and the preservation of families through infant diversion practices and programs.

...As used in sections 5103.61 to 5103.617 of the Revised Code, "family preservation center" means a certified children's crisis care facility or residential infant care center that has as its primary purpose the preservation of families.

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Administrator" means the person responsible for the daily operation of a center, type A home, or approved child day camp. The administrator and the owner may be the same person. (B) "Approved child day camp" means a child day camp approved pursuant to section 5104.22 of the Revised Code. (C) "Authorized representative" means an individual employed by a center, type A home, or ap...

...In addition to any other rules adopted under this chapter, the director of children and youth shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code governing financial and administrative requirements for publicly funded child care and establishing all of the following: (A) Procedures and criteria to be used in making determinations of eligibility for publicly funded child care that give priority to...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Adult" means an individual who is not a minor child. (B) "Assistance group" means a group of individuals treated as a unit for purposes of determining eligibility for and the amount of assistance provided under Ohio works first. (C) "Custodian" means an individual who has legal custody, as defined in section 2151.011 of the Revised Code, of a minor child or comparable status ove...

...verning the LEAP program, including the definitions of "equivalent of a high school diploma" and "good cause," and the incentives provided under the LEAP program; (12) If the director implements section 5107.301 of the Revised Code, the requirements governing the award provided under that section, including the form that the award is to take and requirements an individual must satisfy to receive the award; (13) Cir...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Countable income," "gross earned income," and "gross unearned income" have the meanings established in rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code. (2) "Federal poverty guidelines" has the same meaning as in section 5101.46 of the Revised Code, except that references to a person's family in the definition shall be deemed to be references to the person's assistance g...

...The county department of job and family services shall establish policies defining "good cause for being absent from school" and specifying what constitutes a day of attendance for purposes of the learnfare program's school attendance requirement. Not later than the fifteenth day of each month of a school year or another time agreed to by the county department of job and family services and department of education...

...As used in sections 5107.40 to 5107.69 of the Revised Code: (A) "Alternative work activity" means an activity designed to promote self sufficiency and personal responsibility established by a county department of job and family services under section 5107.64 of the Revised Code. (B) "Developmental activity" means an activity designed to promote self sufficiency and personal responsibility established by a count...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "County family services planning committee" means the county family services planning committee established under section 329.06 of the Revised Code. (B) "Prevention, retention, and contingency program" means the program established by this chapter and funded in part with federal funds provided under Title IV-A. (C) "Title IV-A" means Title IV-A of the "Social Security Act," 49 Stat. 6...

...In adopting a statement of policies under section 5108.04 of the Revised Code for the county's prevention, retention, and contingency program, each county department of job and family services shall do all of the following: (A) Establish or specify all of the following: (1) Benefits and services to be provided under the program that are allowable uses of federal Title IV-A funds under 42 U.S.C. 601 and 604(a), exce...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Certificate of high school equivalence" has the same meaning as in section 5107.40 of the Revised Code. (B) "Fiscal biennial period" means a two-year period beginning on the first day of July of an odd-numbered year and ending on the last day of June of the next odd-numbered year. (C) "In-school youth" has the same meaning as in section 129(a)(1)(C) of the "Workforce Innovation and Op...

...As used in sections 5117.01 to 5117.12 of the Revised Code: (A) "Credit" means the credit on utility heating bills granted under division (A) of section 5117.09 of the Revised Code. (B) "Current monthly bill" means the amount charged for energy consumed in the most recent monthly billing period and does not include any past due balance. (C) "Current total income" means the adjusted gross income of the head of hous...

...(A) As used in this chapter: (1) "Addiction" means the chronic and habitual use of alcoholic beverages, the use of a drug of abuse as defined in section 3719.011 of the Revised Code, or the use of gambling by an individual to the extent that the individual no longer can control the individual's use of alcohol, the individual becomes physically or psychologically dependent on the drug, the individual's use of alcoh...

...As used in sections 5119.81 to 5119.85 of the Revised Code: (A) "9-8-8 administrator" means the administrator of the 9-8-8 suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system, as established in section 5119.82 of the Revised Code. (B) "9-8-8 suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline" or "9-8-8 hotline" means the 9-8-8 universal telephone number in the United States, as established under 47 U.S.C....

...As used in sections 5119.90 to 5119.98 of the Revised Code: (A) "Alcohol and other drug abuse" means alcohol use disorder or drug addiction. (B) "Another drug" means a controlled substance as defined in section 3719.01 of the Revised Code or a harmful intoxicant as defined in section 2925.01 of the Revised Code. (C) "Board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services" means a board of alcohol, drug...

...As used in sections 5120.102 to 5120.105 of the Revised Code: (A) "Private, nonprofit organization" means a private association, organization, corporation, or other entity that is exempt from federal income taxation under section 501(a) and is described in section 501(c) of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C.A. 501, as amended. (B) "Governmental agency" means a state agency; a munic...

...As used in sections 5120.425 to 5120.428 of the Revised Code: (A) "Head of a state correctional institution," "prisoner," and "state correctional institution" have the same meanings as in section 2967.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "Material" means a prerecorded magnetic audio or video tape, book, drawing, magazine, newspaper, pamphlet, poster, print, photograph, or other similar printed, written, recorded, or otherwi...

...e of human and material resources. (B) DEFINITIONS As used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) "State" means a state of the United States; the United States; a territory or possession of the United States; the District of Columbia; the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. (2) "Sending state" means a state party to this compact in which conviction or court commitment was had. (3) "Receivin...

...As used in sections 5121.30 to 5121.56 of the Revised Code: (A) "Countable assets" means all of the following: (1) Cash; (2) Bank deposits; (3) Securities; (4) Individual retirement accounts; (5) Qualified employer plans, including 401(k) and Keogh plans; (6) Annuities; (7) Funds in a trust created under section 5815.28 of the Revised Code; (8) Investment property and income; (9) The cash surrender valu...