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...The department of youth services, in the manner provided in this chapter and Chapter 2151. of the Revised Code, may transfer to a foster care facility certified by the department of children and youth under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code, any child committed to it and, in the event of a transfer of that nature, unless otherwise mutually agreed, the department of youth services shall bear the cost of care and ser...

...iation made to the department of youth services for care and custody of felony delinquents shall be expended in accordance with the following procedure that the department shall use for each year of a biennium. The procedure shall be consistent with sections 5139.41 to 5139.43 of the Revised Code and shall be developed in accordance with the following guidelines: (A) The line item appropriation for the care a...

...e member shall be the director of youth services or the director's designee. (c) One member shall be the director of budget and management or the director's designee. (d) One member shall be a member of a senate committee dealing with finance or criminal justice issues appointed by the president of the senate. (e) One member shall be a member of a committee of the house of representatives dealing with finance or ...

...ntral office of the department of youth services by the director of youth services, a committee appointed at an institution by the managing officer of the institution, or a duly authorized subcommittee of that nature and that is designated to carry out quality assurance program activities. (2) "Institution" means a state facility that is created by the general assembly and that is under the management and control o...

...se authority of the department of youth services is hereby created as a bureau in the department. The release authority shall consist of a minimum of three, but not more than five, members who are appointed by the director of youth services and who have the qualifications specified in division (B) of this section. The members of the release authority shall devote their full time to the duties of the release authority...

... the control of the department of youth services if the youth is serving a sentence that is more than one year, or within a reasonable time if the youth is serving a sentence that is less than one year, the department of youth services shall attempt to verify the youth's age and identity in order to satisfy the requirements of section 4507.51 of the Revised Code. (B) The department shall provide each youth who doe...

...(A)(1) The director of youth services shall designate certain employees of the department of youth services, including regional administrators, as persons who are authorized, in accordance with section 5139.52 of the Revised Code, to execute an order of apprehension or a warrant for, or otherwise to arrest, children in the custody of the department who are violating or are alleged to have violated the terms and condi...

...(A)(1) The office of victims' services is hereby created within the release authority of the department of youth services. The office of victims' services shall provide assistance to victims, victims' representatives, and members of a victim's family. The assistance shall include, but shall not be limited to, all of the following: (a) If the court has provided the name and address of the victims of the child's acts ...

...jurisdiction of the department of youth services dies, and any personal funds or property of the child remain in the hands of the department and no demand is made upon the department by the decedent's legally appointed executor or administrator, all money and other personal property of the decedent remaining in the custody or possession of the department shall be held by the department for a period of one year from t...

...jurisdiction of the department of youth services, with the approval of the director of the department, may establish local funds designated as follows: (1) The cafeteria fund, created and maintained for the benefit of the institution, into which shall be deposited all money received from the sale of cafeteria meals. The fund shall be used to pay costs of providing employee meals, and to reimburse the employee food s...

...Whoever violates section 5139.21 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than ten nor more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

...d in the Revised Code, "public children services agency" means an entity specified in section 5153.02 of the Revised Code that has assumed the powers and duties of the children services function prescribed by this chapter for a county. (B) As used in this chapter: (1) "Certified foster home" means a foster home, as defined in section 5103.02 of the Revised Code, certified under section 5103.03 of the Revised Co...

...ach county shall have a public children services agency. Any of the following may be the public children services agency: (A) A county children services board; (B) A county department of job and family services; (C) A private or government entity designated under section 307.981 of the Revised Code.

...If a county children services board is a public children services agency for a county, the board of county commissioners shall appoint five members of the county children services board and for good cause may remove any member so appointed. Each of these members shall be appointed for the term of four years, but the board shall stagger their terms so that the terms of not more than two of the required members of the ...

...A county children services board appointed under section 5153.03 of the Revised Code shall elect one of its members as chairperson and another as secretary. The chairperson may appoint committees composed of board members and other persons interested in child care. A majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum, and the action of a majority of the members present shall constitute the action of the b...

...If a county children services board appointed under section 5153.03 of the Revised Code is a public children services agency for a county, the board may appoint an advisory committee on children services. If an entity specified in division (B) or (C) of section 5153.02 of the Revised Code is a public children services agency for a county, the board of county commissioners may appoint an advisory committee on children...

...The county children services board may enter into a written contract with the board's executive director specifying terms and conditions of the executive director's employment. The executive director shall not be in the classified civil service. The period of the contract shall not exceed three years. Such a contract shall in no way abridge the right of the county children services board to terminate the employment o...

...Each public children services agency shall designate an executive officer known as the "executive director," who shall not be in the classified civil service. The superintendent of the children's home, the county director of job and family services, or other individual may serve as the executive director. The agency shall, from time to time, inquire into community conditions affecting the welfare of children and stu...

...inister the work of the public children services agency, subject to the rules of the agency. With the approval of the agency, the executive director shall appoint all other employees except the superintendent of any institution maintained by the agency. Such superintendent shall appoint all employees in any such institution. Upon the advice of one or more reputable practicing physicians, the executive director may c...

...executive director of a public children services agency shall request the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation to conduct a criminal records check with respect to any applicant who has applied to the agency for employment as a person responsible for the care, custody, or control of a child. If the applicant does not present proof that the applicant has been a resident of this stat...

...(A) A public children services agency may hire as a caseworker only the following: (1) A person who has a bachelor's degree in human services-related studies; (2) A person who has a bachelor's degree in any field and has been employed for at least two years in a human services-related occupation; (3) A person who has an associate's degree in human services-related studies; (4) A person who has completed at le...

...n for a position with a public children services agency to work, with or without monetary gain or compensation, as a person responsible for the care, custody, or control of a child; (3) "Volunteer applicant" means a person who is under consideration for a position with a public children services agency to perform services within the agency voluntarily, without monetary gain or compensation, as a person responsible...

...All employees of the public children services agency shall be in the classified civil service. The agency may establish compensation rates and vacation benefits for any of its employees. Insofar as practicable, all employees holding positions in the classified service, whose duties are transferred by this section to the agency, shall be continued, with like status, by the appointing authority before any other appoint...

...y commissioners and the county children services board may agree to permit any employee of the department of children and youth also to perform duties for the county children services board, or to permit any employee of the county children services board also to perform duties for the department of children and youth. (B) An agreement made under division (A) of this section may require the board of county commissi...

...fter January 1, 2007, shall complete in-service training during the first year of the caseworker's continuous employment as a PCSA caseworker, except that the executive director of the public children services agency may waive the training requirement for a school of social work graduate who participated in the university partnership program described in division (E) of section 5101.141 of the Revised Code and as pro...