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Section 5123.74 | Emergency institutionalization by probate court.

...; (2) Order the county board of developmental disabilities to provide services to the individual in the community if the board's assessment of the individual conducted under section 5123.711 of the Revised Code identifies that resources are available to meet the individual's needs in an appropriate manner within the community as an alternative to institutionalization; (3) Set the matter for further hearing. (B) A ...

Section 5123.75 | Probable cause hearing.

... the designee of the director of developmental disabilities under section 5123.72 of the Revised Code shall present evidence for the state. (D) If the court does not find probable cause to believe that the respondent is a person with an intellectual disability subject to institutionalization by court order, it shall order immediate release of the respondent and dismiss and expunge all record of the proceedings unde...

Section 5123.76 | Full hearing.

... the designee of the director of developmental disabilities under section 5123.72 of the Revised Code, the court, for good cause shown, may admit persons having a legitimate interest in the proceedings. (7) The affiant under section 5123.71 of the Revised Code shall be subject to subpoena by either party. (8) The court shall examine the sufficiency of all documents filed and shall inform the respondent, if present,...

Section 5123.77 | Temporary holding.

...(A) Pending removal to an institution, a person taken into custody or ordered to be institutionalized pursuant to this chapter may be held in the person's home, a certified foster home, licensed rest or nursing home, a county home, or a facility used for detention, but the person shall be kept separate from persons charged with or convicted of penal offenses. (B) Whenever any person is taken into custody under this ...

Section 5123.79 | Discharging involuntary resident.

...(A) Notwithstanding a finding pursuant to section 5123.76 of the Revised Code that a person is a person with an intellectual disability subject to institutionalization by court order, the managing officer of an institution, with the concurrence of the chief program director, shall, except as provided in division (C) of this section, grant a discharge without the consent or the authorization of any court upon a deter...

Section 5123.80 | Trial visits.

..., within five days, shall authorize any health or police officer, or sheriff to take the resident into custody and transport the resident to the institution. (E) An involuntarily committed resident who has successfully completed one year of continuous trial visit shall be automatically discharged.

Section 5123.801 | Expenses of trial visit or discharge.

... control of the department of developmental disabilities may then provide actual traveling and escort expenses to the township of which the resident resided at the time of institutionalization. The amount payable shall be charged to the current expense fund of the institution. The expense of the return of a resident on trial visit from an institution, if it cannot be paid by the responsible relatives, ...

Section 5123.81 | Involuntarily committed resident absent without leave.

...may be issued by the director of developmental disabilities, the managing officer of the institution from which the resident is absent, or the probate judge of the county from which the resident was ordered institutionalized or in which he is found. The officer who takes the resident into custody shall immediately notify the issuer of the order.

Section 5123.811 | Reporting change of location, death or condition of resident.

...the control of the department of developmental disabilities shall immediately report the removal, death, absence without leave, discharge, or trial visit of any resident, or return of an absent without leave or visiting resident to the department, the probate judge of the county from which such resident was institutionalized, and the probate judge of the county of the residence of such resident. In case of deat...

Section 5123.82 | Application for habilitation and care of discharged resident.

...s offered by the county board of developmental disabilities for persons with intellectual disabilities, or to such other facility as the director of developmental disabilities may designate. Upon notice of such referral, the director of such program may provide the services required by the applicant.

Section 5123.83 | Civil and public or private employment rights.

...untarily or involuntarily, for a developmental disability. Any person in custody, voluntarily or involuntarily, under the provisions of this chapter, retains all rights not specifically denied the person under this or any other chapter of the Revised Code.

Section 5123.84 | Free communication with others by residents.

...All residents of institutions for persons with i ntellectual disabilities shall be allowed to communicate freely with others, including but not restricted to the following: (A) Receiving visitors at reasonable times; (B) Being visited by counsel or personal physician, or both, at any reasonable time; (C) Having reasonable access to telephones to make and receive confidential calls, including a reasonable number ...

Section 5123.85 | Habilitation plan.

...litation plan. The department of developmental disabilities shall set standards for habilitation and care provided to such residents, consistent wherever possible with standards set by national accreditation organizations recognized by the department. (D) All such residents shall receive periodic comprehensive re-evaluations of the habilitation plan by the professional staff of the institution at intervals not to ex...

Section 5123.851 | Procedure upon discharge.

...When a resident institutionalized pursuant to this chapter is discharged from the institution, the managing officer of the institution may provide the resident with all personal items that were purchased in implementing the resident's habilitation plan established pursuant to section 5123.85 of the Revised Code. The personal items may be provided to the resident, regardless of the source of the funds that were used t...

Section 5123.86 | Consent for medical treatment.

...gery would create a grave danger to the health of a resident, emergency surgery may be performed without the consent of the resident if the necessary information is provided to the resident's guardian, including an agency providing guardianship services under contract with the department of developmental disabilities under sections 5123.55 to 5123.59 of the Revised Code, or to the resident's spouse or next of kin to ...

Section 5123.87 | Labor or tasks performed by residents.

...(A) No resident of an institution for persons with i ntellectual disabilities shall be compelled to perform labor that involves the operation, support, or maintenance of the institution or for which the institution is under contract with an outside organization. Privileges or release from the institution shall not be conditional upon the performance of such labor. Residents who volunteer to perform such labor shall...

Section 5123.88 | Writ of habeas corpus.

...Any person detained pursuant to this chapter shall be entitled to the writ of habeas corpus upon proper petition by self or a friend to any court generally empowered to issue the writ of habeas corpus in the county in which the person is detained. No person may bring a petition for a writ of habeas corpus that alleges that a person involuntarily detained pursuant to this chapter is no longer a person with an intel...

Section 5123.89 | Confidentiality.

...ed Code. (C) The department of developmental disabilities shall adopt rules with respect to the systematic and periodic destruction of residents' records. (D) Upon the death of a resident or former resident of an institution for persons with intellectual disabilities or a person whose institutionalization was sought under this chapter, the managing officer of an institution shall provide access to the certificate...

Section 5123.90 | Attorney general duties.

...urisdiction of the department of developmental disabilities and the managing officer thereof. If a writ of habeas corpus is applied for, the clerk of the court shall give notice of the time and place of hearing to the attorney general.

Section 5123.91 | Immunity.

...All persons who are not subject to any criminal provisions and who act reasonable and in good faith, either upon actual knowledge or upon information reasonably thought by them to be reliable, shall be free from any liability to a person institutionalized in institutions for persons with i ntellectual disabilities or to any other person in their procedural or physical assistance administered in the course of the in...

Section 5123.92 | Venue.

...If an affidavit alleging that a person has an intellectual disability and is subject to institutionalization by court order is filed, according to the provisions of section 5123.71 of the Revised Code, in the probate division of a county within the institutional district but not in the county within which the institution is located, and if such person is detained in the institution, the probate division of the coun...

Section 5123.93 | Guardianship of minor.

...Minors with intellectual disabilities shall remain under the guardianship of their parents or of a guardian appointed pursuant to Chapter 2111. of the Revised Code, notwithstanding institutionalization pursuant to any section of this chapter, unless parental rights have been terminated pursuant to a court finding that the child is neglected, abused, or dependent pursuant to Chapter 2151. of the Revised Code. If a min...

Section 5123.95 | Transmission of court papers.

...The probate judge, upon making an order institutionalizing a person under this chapter, shall forthwith transmit copies, under the judge's official seal, of court papers in the case, including the certificate of the expert witnesses, and of the judge's findings in the case to the managing officer of the institution for persons with intellectual disabilities. If not otherwise furnished, the probate judge shall see th...

Section 5123.96 | Payment of costs, fees, and expenses of proceedings.

...nty auditor to the department of developmental disabilities within two months of the date the costs, fees, and expenses are incurred by the county. Payment shall be provided for by the director of budget and management upon presentation of properly verified vouchers. The director of developmental disabilities may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement the payment of costs, fees, ...

Section 5123.97 | Record of probate judge.

...In cases of proceedings held under this chapter, the probate judge shall file and preserve all papers filed with him and make such entries upon his docket as, together with the papers so filed, will constitute a complete record of each case determined by him.