Ohio Revised Code Search

...No person shall, at a place other than a private crossing or for a purpose other than crossing a railroad, ride or drive a horse or other domestic animal into an enclosure of a railroad or knowingly permit such animal to go into or remain in such enclosure, or place feed, salt, or other thing within such enclosure to induce such animal to enter into it or upon the track of such railroad, or, while constructing a priv...

...(A) No person in charge of a locomotive shall fail to bring the locomotive to a full stop at least two hundred feet before arriving at a crossing with another track, or proceed through the crossing before signaled to do so or before the way is clear. (B)(1) Whoever violates this section or fails to comply with division (B)(1) of section 4955.32 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth deg...

...No person or company owning, operating, or controlling a railroad shall employ as a flagman, hostler, or assistant hostler, a person who cannot read, write, and speak the English language. Whoever violates this section shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars. This section does not apply to flagmen at street or highway crossings.

...ve jurisdiction under this section. The public utilities commission shall enforce this section.

...re than ten thousand dollars. (2) The attorney general, upon the request of the public utilities commission, shall bring a civil action to collect the penalties described in division (C)(1) of this section. All penalties collected under the division shall be deposited into the state treasury to the credit of the public utilities fund created in section 4905.10 of the Revised Code. (D) The requirements of this sec...

...No person, railroad company, private corporation, county, municipal corporation, or township shall violate any law relating to the height of bridges, viaducts, overhead roadways, footbridges, wires, or other structures constructed over the tracks of a railroad. Whoever violates this section shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars. Each day such structure or wire is permitted to so ...

...No person or company owning, operating, or controlling a railroad shall erect or permit to be erected, place, or maintain along said railroad, a mail crane or livestock chute, any portion of which approaches nearer than eighteen inches to the nearest point of contact with the cab of the widest locomotive used on such railroad. Whoever violates this section shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than one t...

...ice from the inspector appointed by the public utilities commission, of a defective coupler or brake, to have it repaired forthwith or, on receiving notice from such inspector condemning a car, tender, or engine, shall fail to put it out of service at the first freight division terminal. No superintendent, conductor, or other officer or employee shall violate any other law relating to automatic couplers and air brake...

...No railroad company shall contract to employ a person in a position which requires such person to distinguish form or color signals, unless within two years preceding such date he has been examined for color blindness, in the distinct colors in actual use by such company by a competent person employed and paid by such company, and has received a certificate that he is not disqualified for such position by color blin...

...No railroad company, or its superintendent, or manager, employing any special agent, detective, or person commonly known as "spotter" for the purpose of investigating, obtaining, and reporting to the employer, its agent, superintendent, or manager, information concerning its employees, shall discipline or discharge any employee in its service, where such act of discipline or the discharge is based upon a report by su...

...No officer, agent, or other person acting for or in behalf of a railroad company operating ten or more miles of its railroad for the carrying or transporting of passengers or freight over its railroad within this state which fails to erect and maintain telegraph or telephone wires in complete working order for use and operation along its railroad, with an office and proper means of communication by such wires at each...

...No agent of a railroad company shall knowingly divert or permit freight under his control to be diverted from the railroads over which it is ordered to be conveyed by the shipper of such freight. Whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.

...or more than five thousand dollars. The public utilities commission shall enforce this section and prosecute any violations thereof.

...n the Revised Code, the "department of public welfare" and the "department of human services" mean the department of job and family services and the "director of public welfare" and the "director of human services" mean the director of job and family services. Except as provided in section 5160.011 of the Revised Code, whenever the department or director of public welfare or the department or director of human...

...The director of job and family services is the executive head of the department of job and family services. All duties conferred on the various work units of the department by law or by order of the director shall be performed under such rules as the director prescribes, and shall be under the director's control.

...The assistant directors of the department of job and family services shall exercise the powers and perform the duties which the director of job and family services may order. The director is authorized to designate which assistant director shall act as director in the absence or disability of the director or in case of a vacancy in the position of director.

..., in order to improve the timeliness of public assistance benefit deliveries, to maximize operational efficiencies, increase cost savings, and minimize fraud, the department of job and family services may contract with a third-party commercial consumer reporting agency, in accordance with the "Fair Credit Reporting Act," 15 U.S.C. 1681 et seq., for the purpose of assisting the department with eligibility determinatio...

...etermine if the information affects any public assistance recipient's eligibility. (3) An agreement with the director of health, under which the director of health is required to provide the director of job and family services with a searchable list identifying new and updated vital statistics records, including death records. The director of job and family services shall check the list at least monthly for vital s...

...The director of job and family services may appoint such employees as are necessary for the efficient operation of the department of job and family services. The director may prescribe the title and duties of the employees.

...If the director of job and family services determines that a position with the department of job and family services can best be filled in accordance with division (A)(2) of section 124.30 of the Revised Code or without regard to a residency requirement established by a rule adopted by the director of administrative services, the director of job and family services shall provide the director of administrative service...

...The director of job and family services may establish work units within the department of job and family services as necessary for the efficient operation of the department. The director shall appoint the chief of each work unit.

... (1) Coordinating services across all public assistance programs to help individuals find employment, succeed at work, and stay out of poverty; (2) Revising incentives for public assistance programs to foster person-centered case management; (3) Standardizing and automating eligibility determination policies and processes for public assistance programs; (4) Other matters the office considers appropriate. ...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the support services federal operating fund. The fund shall consist of federal funds the department of job and family services receives and that the director of job and family services determines are appropriate for deposit into the fund. Money in the fund shall be used to pay the federal share of both of the following: (A) The department's costs for computer projects; ...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the support services state operating fund. The fund shall consist of payments made to the fund from other appropriation items by intrastate transfer voucher. Money in the fund shall be used to pay for both of the following: (A) The department of job and family services' costs for computer projects; (B) The operating costs of the parts of the department that provide gene...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the human services projects fund. The fund may consist of intrastate agency transfers, nonfederal grants, and other similar revenue sources. The department of job and family services shall use the fund to support program and administrative expenses related to the implementation of human services initiatives within the department.