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...The purpose of a fetal-infant mortality review board is to decrease the incidence of preventable infant and fetal deaths by doing all of the following: (A) Assessing, planning, improving, and monitoring the service systems and broad community resources that support and promote the health and well-being of women, infants, and families; (B) Recommending and developing plans for implementing local service and progra...

...(A) Notwithstanding section 3701.243 and any other section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality, an individual, public children services agency, private child placing agency, agency that provides services specifically to individuals or families, a law enforcement agency, or another public or private entity that provided services to a pregnant woman whose fetus died or an infant who died if the death is b...

...(A) Except as provided in sections 5153.171 to 5153.173 of the Revised Code, any record, document, report, or other information presented to a fetal-infant mortality review board or a person abstracting such materials on the board's behalf, statements made by board members during board meetings, all work products of the board, and data submitted by the board to the department of health or a national infant death revi...

...(A) An individual or public or private entity providing records, documents, reports, or other information to a fetal-infant mortality review board is immune from any civil liability for injury, death, or loss to person or property that otherwise might be incurred or imposed as a result of providing the records, documents, reports, or information to the board. (B) Each board member is immune from any civil liability...

...Not later than the first day of April of each year, a fetal-infant mortality review board shall do both of the following: (A) Submit to the fetal-infant mortality database maintained by the department of health or the national infant death review database individual data pertaining to each fetal or infant death reviewed in that board's jurisdiction within the twelve months immediately before the submission. The spe...

...(A) Whoever violates section 3707.03 of the Revised Code, unless good and sufficient reason therefor is shown, is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. (B) Whoever violates division (B) of section 3707.06 or section 3707.48 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on each subsequent offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.

...The state shall be divided into health districts. Each city constitutes a city health district. The townships and villages in each county shall be combined into a general health district. As provided for in sections 3709.051, 3709.07, and 3709.10 of the Revised Code, there may be a union of two or more general health districts, a union of two or more city health districts to form a single city health district, or a...

...A board of health of a city or general health district or the authority having the duties of a board of health under section 3709.05 of the Revised Code may select the titles it uses to refer to itself, the health district it represents, or any health facility or other entity it operates. The titles may include any terms selected by the board or authority, including the term "public health."

...(A) Except as provided in division (F) of this section, not later than the date that is eighteen months after the official announcement of the result of a federal decennial census taken in a particular census year, including the 2020 census, a city with a population less than fifty thousand that is represented by a board of health of a city health district shall complete a study examining the efficiency and effective...

...(A) In each general health district there shall be a board of health consisting of five members to be appointed as provided in sections 3709.03 and 3709.41 of the Revised Code. The term of office of the members shall be five years from the date of appointment, except that of those first appointed one shall serve for five years, one for four years, one for three years, one for two years, and one for one year, and the...

...the transaction of business, and voting procedures. The council shall meet annually in March at a place determined by the chair and the health commissioner for the purpose of electing the chair and the secretary, making necessary appointments to the board of health, receiving and considering the annual or special reports from the board of health, and making recommendations to the board of health or to the department...

...If in any general health district the district advisory council fails to meet or to select a board of health, the director of health may appoint a board of health for such district which shall have and exercise all powers conferred on a board of health of a general health district.

...(A) Unless an administration of public health different from that specifically provided in this section is established and maintained under authority of its charter, or unless a combined city health district is formed under section 3709.051 of the Revised Code, the legislative authority of each city constituting a city health district shall establish a board of health. The board of health shall be composed of five me...

...after such certification. The election procedures provided in Chapter 3505. of the Revised Code for questions and issues shall apply to the election. If a majority of the electors voting on the proposal in each of the health districts affected vote in favor thereof, the union of such districts into a single city health district shall be established on the second succeeding first day of January.

...When a majority of the members of the legislative authority or a majority of the electors of each city constituting a city health district have voted affirmatively, the chief executives of the cities affected shall enter into a contract for the administration of public health affairs in the combined district. Such contract shall state the proportion of expenses of the board of health or health department of the combi...

...If any city constituting a city health district fails to establish a board of health under section 3709.05 of the Revised Code, the director of health may appoint a health commissioner for such city, and fix the commissioner's salary and term of office. Such commissioner shall have the same powers and perform the duties granted to or imposed upon a board of health of a city health district, except that rules, regulat...

...Except as provided in section 3709.071 of the Revised Code, when it is proposed that one or more city health districts unite with a general health district in the formation of a single district, the district advisory council of the general health district shall meet and vote on the question of union. It shall require a majority affirmative vote of the members of the district advisory council to carry the question. Th...

...h the boards of election. The election procedures provided in Chapter 3505. of the Revised Code for questions and issues shall be followed. If a majority of the electors voting on the proposal in each of the health districts affected vote in favor thereof, the union of such districts into a single general health district shall be established on the second succeeding January 1. When the establishment of a combi...

...(A) A board of health of a city or general health district or the authority having the duties of a board of health under section 3709.05 of the Revised Code may enter into a contract to provide some or all public health services for a board of health of another city or general health district. (B) Each contract entered under division (A) of this section shall do all of the following: (1) State the amount of ...

...(A) The board of health of a city or general health district may enter into a contract with any political subdivision or other governmental agency to obtain or provide all or part of any services, including, but not limited to, enforcement services, for the purposes of Chapter 3704. of the Revised Code, the rules adopted and orders made pursuant thereto, or any other ordinances or rules for the prevention, cont...

...(A) The board of health of a city or general health district may, by rule, establish a uniform system of fees to pay the costs of any services provided by the board. The fee for issuance of a certified copy of a vital record or a certification of birth shall not be less than the fee prescribed for the same service under division (A)(1) of section 3705.24 of the Revised Code and shall include the fees required ...

...that time period in accordance with the procedures set forth herein, the amount will be placed as a lien on your real property." The notice also shall explain how the owner, leaseholder, or assignee may pay the amount, or object to the amount in accordance with the procedures established by divisions (C) and (D) of this section. Notice to the owner, leaseholder, or assignee shall be made by either of the following: ...

...(A) A board of health of a city or general health district shall transmit to the director of health all fees or additional amounts that the director requires to be collected under sections 3701.344, 3718.06, 3729.07, and 3749.04 of the Revised Code. The fees and amounts shall be transmitted according to the following schedule: (1) For fees and amounts received by the board on or after the first day of January...

...When it is proposed that two or more general health districts unite in the formation of one general health district, the district advisory council of each general health district shall meet and vote on the question of union. An affirmative majority vote of the district advisory council shall be required for approval. When the district advisory councils have voted affirmatively on the question, they shall meet i...

...r, the board shall provide for adequate medical direction of all personal health and nursing services by the employment of a licensed physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner as medical director on either a full-time or part-time basis. The medical director shall be responsible to the board of health.