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...As used in sections 2969.21 to 2969.27 of the Revised Code: (A) "Clerk" means the elected or appointed clerk of any court in this state, except the court of claims or the supreme court, in which an inmate has commenced a civil action against a government entity or employee or has filed an appeal of the judgment or order in a civil action of that nature. (B)(1) "Civil action or appeal against a government entity or ...

...the court finds any of the following: (1) The allegation of indigency in a poverty affidavit filed by the inmate is false. (2) The claim that is the basis of the civil action or the issues of law that are the basis of the appeal are frivolous or malicious. (3) The inmate filed an affidavit required by section 2969.25 or 2969.26 of the Revised Code that was materially false. (B) For the purposes of this section, i...

...ch of those civil actions or appeals: (1) A brief description of the nature of the civil action or appeal; (2) The case name, case number, and the court in which the civil action or appeal was brought; (3) The name of each party to the civil action or appeal; (4) The outcome of the civil action or appeal, including whether the court dismissed the civil action or appeal as frivolous or malicious under state or fed...

...ned by all of the following purposes: (1) To provide economic disincentives and remedies to deter and offset the economic effect of offenses by seizing and forfeiting contraband, proceeds, and certain instrumentalities; (2) To ensure that seizures and forfeitures of instrumentalities are proportionate to the offense committed; (3) To protect third parties from wrongful forfeiture of their property; (4) To priorit...

...purpose to do any of the following: (1) Prevent or impair the state's or political subdivision's lawful authority to take the property into its custody or control under this chapter or to continue holding the property under its lawful custody or control; (2) Impair or defeat the court's continuing jurisdiction over the person and property; (3) Devalue property that the person knows, or has reasonable cause ...

...g, but not limited to, the following: (1) The seriousness of the offense and its impact on the community, including the duration of the activity and the harm caused or intended by the person whose property is subject to forfeiture; (2) The extent to which the person whose property is subject to forfeiture participated in the offense; (3) Whether the offense was completed or attempted; (4) The extent to which the ...

...rs, clerks, and employees other than: (1) Treasurers or tax collectors by whatever title known; (2) Any officer, clerk, or employee required by law to execute or file an individual official bond to qualify for office or employment. (C) Such blanket bond shall indemnify against losses through one of the following conditions: (1) The failure of the officers, clerks, and employees covered thereunder faithfully to pe...

...bership shall be effected as follows: (1) Whenever the number of members of the board is increased, there shall be elected at the regular state election next following the adoptions of such provision, a sufficient number of county commissioners to bring the total membership of the board up to the number fixed. County commissioners shall serve a term of four years, except the candidates first elected under the provis...

... provide the following information: (1) The person intending to apply for a certificate shall provide the following information to the board of county commissioners: (a) Whether the utility facility will be: (i) A large wind farm; (ii) An economically significant wind farm; or (iii) A large solar facility. (b) The maximum nameplate capacity of the utility facility; (c) A map of the proposed geogr...

...ppointment shall be made as follows: (1) If the last occupant of the office was elected as a partisan candidate, the county central committee of the political party that nominated the last occupant of the office for the current term shall make the appointment. However, if such vacancy occurs because of the death, resignation, or inability to take the office of an officer-elect whose term has not yet begun, and the ...

...tion and procedure prior to October 25, 1995, shall continue to operate under that organization. Appointments and promotions in that system shall be made, as far as practicable, by competitive examination. A board that established its own civil service organization prior to October 25, 1995, shall establish by rule the seniority provisions relating to street railway and motor bus employees in effect at the tim...

...bonds of the county pursuant to Chapter 133. of the Revised Code, for the purpose of purchasing, acquiring, constructing, enlarging, and improving the county transit system. (B) The board of county commissioners operating a transit system or a county transit board, with the approval of the county commissioners, may issue revenue bonds of the county for the purpose of purchasing, acquiring, constructing, enlarging, a...

...Code, "transit facility" means any: (1) Street railway, motor bus, tramline, subway, monorail, rapid transit vehicle, aeroplane, helicopter, ferry, or other ground or water transportation system having as its primary purpose the regularly scheduled mass movement of passengers between locations within the territorial boundaries of a regional transit authority, including all rights-of-way, power lines, rolling stock...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Political subdivision" means a county, a municipal corporation, or a township. (2) "Governing body" means a board of county commissioners of a county, a legislative authority of a municipal corporation, or a board of trustees of a township. (B) For any regional transit authority that levies a property tax and that includes in its membership political subdivisions that are lo...

...ony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) In the exercise of its authority under division (Y) of section 306.35 of the Revised Code, a regional transit authority shall not employ a person as a regional transit authority police officer on a permanent basis, on a temporary basis, for a probationary term, or on other than a permanent basis if the person previously has been convicted of...

...as the same meaning as in section 5552.01 of the Revised Code. (B) This section applies to a regional transit authority the territory of which includes a county having a population of more than one million three hundred thousand. (C) A regional transit authority to which this section applies may do any of the following: (1) In addition to the purposes specified in division (J) of section 306.35 of the Revised C...

... to the procedure provided in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and subject to division (B) of this section, provided that a regional transit authority shall not proceed to so appropriate real property outside its territorial boundaries, until it has served at the office of the county commissioners of the county in which it is proposed to appropriate real property, a notice describing ...

...ces by one of the following methods: (1) By operating an emergency medical service organization as defined in section 4765.01 of the Revised Code; (2) By contracting for the operation of one or more facilities pursuant to division (C) or (D) of this section; (3) By providing necessary services and equipment to the district either directly or under a contract entered into pursuant to division (B) of this secti...

...rsuant to division (EE) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code. The moneys so appropriated may be used for the creation and operation of the office, for any economic development purpose of the office, and to provide for the establishment and operation of a program of economic development, including in support of a county land reutilization corporation organized under Chapter 1724. of the Revised Code. In suppor...

...oard may do either of the following: (1) Sell the property at public auction or by sealed bid to the highest bidder. Notice of the time, place, and manner of the sale shall be published at least ten days prior to the sale, using at least one of the following methods: (a) In the print or digital edition of a newspaper of general circulation within the county; (b) On the official public notice web site establishe...

...(A)(1) Subject to division (C) of this section, the board of county commissioners may enter into an agreement with the legislative authority of any municipal corporation, township, port authority, water or sewer district, school district, library district, health district, park district, soil and water conservation district, water conservancy district, or other taxing district, or with the board of any other county, ...

...ces under division (LL) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code to provide financial support for any of the following: (1) The county sheriff or the police department of a municipal corporation or township in the county; (2) The court of common pleas, any municipal court having jurisdiction throughout the county, or any county court; (3) The county prosecuting attorney, any municipal attorney in the county, and any...

...brary resources fund, effective January 1, 2010. The fund shall receive all revenue that is required to be deposited into the fund pursuant to division (D)(1) of section 307.51 and section 307.515 of the Revised Code, appropriated to the fund from the general fund by the board of county commissioners pursuant to section 307.513 of the Revised Code, or designated for ...

...ection of the Revised Code, section 303.12 of the Revised Code, or any vote of the electors on a petition for zoning referendum, a county may settle any court action by a consent decree or court-approved settlement agreement which may include an agreement to rezone any property involved in the action as provided in the decree or court-approved settlement agreement without following the procedures in section 303.12 of...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "County agency" includes any department, authority, commission, office, or board of the county. (2) "Crisis intervention services" means short-term emotional or psychological aid provided in the form of counseling or referral for crime victims. (3) "Emergency services" means the provision of aid including temporary shelter for victims who cannot safely remain in their current lodgi...

...cipients eligible for the services: (1) Initial care for normal newborns; (2) Subsequent day, hospital care for normal newborns; (3) Same day, initial history and physical examination and discharge for normal newborns; (4) Initial neonatal critical care for children not more than twenty-eight days old; (5) Subsequent day, neonatal critical care for children not more than twenty-eight days old; (6) S...

...ble Care Act," section 2702, 42 U.S.C. 1396b-1.

...rganization as defined in section 4765.01 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) The medicaid director shall submit a medicaid state plan amendment to the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services seeking authorization to establish and administer a supplemental payment program to provide supplemental medicaid payments to eligible ground emergency medical transportation service providers. If approved, the medic...

...(A) Except as provided in section 5165.072 of the Revised Code, the department of medicaid shall enter into a provider agreement with a nursing facility operator who applies, and is eligible, for the provider agreement. (B) A provider agreement shall require the department to make medicaid payments to the provider in accordance with this chapter for nursing facility services the nursing facility provides to it...

...cept as otherwise provided by sections 5165.151 to 5165.158 and 5165.34 of the Revised Code, the total per medicaid day payment rate that the department of medicaid shall pay a nursing facility provider for nursing facility services the provider's nursing facility provides during a state fiscal year shall be determined as follows: (A) Determine the sum of all of the following: (1) The per medicaid day payment r...

...the director of health on or after July 1, 2005, amortization of the cost of acquiring operating rights for the relocated beds is not an allowable cost for the purpose of determining the nursing facility's medicaid payment rate.

...re than the greater of the following: (1) One thousand dollars per audit; (2) Twenty-five per cent of the cumulative amount by which the costs for which documentation was not furnished increased the total medicaid payments to the provider during the state fiscal year for which the costs were used to determine a rate. (B) If an exiting operator or owner fails to provide notice of a facility closure or voluntary wit...

...ntinues to participate in medicaid: (1) Any amount the provider is required to refund, and any interest charged, under section 5165.41 of the Revised Code; (2) The amount of any penalty imposed on the provider under section 5165.42 of the Revised Code. (B) The department and a nursing facility provider may enter into an agreement under which a deduction required by division (A) of this section is taken in in...

...ering operator that goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. on the effective date of the change of operator if all of the following requirements are met: (A) The department receives a properly completed written notice required by section 5165.51 of the Revised Code on or before the date required by that section. (B) The department receives from the department of health notice of intent to grant a change of operator licen...

...eipt of a written notice under section 5165.50 of the Revised Code of a facility closure or voluntary withdrawal of participation, on receipt of a written notice under section 5165.51 of the Revised Code of a change of operator, or on the effective date of an involuntary termination, the department of medicaid shall estimate the amount of any overpayments made under the medicaid program to the exiting operator, inclu...

...vious cost report required by section 5165.10 of the Revised Code and ends on the last day the exiting operator's provider agreement is in effect or, in the case of a voluntary withdrawal of participation, the effective date of the voluntary withdrawal of participation. The cost report shall include, as applicable, all of the following: (1) The sale price of the nursing facility; (2) A final depreciation sche...

...(A) All amounts withheld under section 5165.521 of the Revised Code from payment due an exiting operator under the medicaid program shall be deposited into the medicaid payment withholding fund created by the controlling board pursuant to section 131.35 of the Revised Code. Money in the fund shall be used as follows: (1) To pay an exiting operator when a withholding is released to the exiting operator under sectio...

...cility that is conducted under section 5165.64 of the Revised Code, including any statement of deficiencies and all findings and deficiencies cited in the statement on the basis of the survey, shall be used solely to determine the nursing facility's compliance with certification requirements or with this chapter or another chapter of the Revised Code. Those results of a survey, that statement of deficiencies, and the...

...d pursuant to division (E) of section 5165.66 of the Revised Code. The statement shall indicate the severity and scope level of each finding and fully describe the incidents or other facts that form the basis of the department's determination of the existence of each finding and deficiency. A failure by the survey team to completely disclose in the exit interview every finding that may result from the survey d...

...acting agency may, subject to sections 5165.82 and 5165.83 of the Revised Code, impose one or more of the following remedies: (A) Do either of the following: (1) Issue an order denying medicaid payments to the facility for all medicaid eligible residents admitted after the effective date of the order; (2) Impose a fine. (B) Issue an order denying medicaid payments to the facility for medicaid eligible resid...

...ram is terminated pursuant to section 5165.12 of the Revised Code, the department of medicaid shall establish a home first component for the Ohio home care waiver program. An individual is eligible for the Ohio home care waiver program's home first component if the individual has been determined to be eligible for the Ohio home care waiver program and at least one of the following applies: (1) If the individu...

...of medicaid may create the following: (1) One or more medicaid waiver components under which home and community-based services are provided to individuals with developmental disabilities as an alternative to placement in ICFs/IID; (2) One or more medicaid waiver components under which home and community-based services are provided in the form of any of the following: (a) Early intervention and supportive services ...

...velopmental disabilities under section 5162.35 of the Revised Code with regard to one or more of the medicaid waiver components created by the department of medicaid under section 5166.20 of the Revised Code. The contract shall include the medicaid waiver component known as the transitions developmental disabilities waiver. The contract shall provide for the department of developmental disabilities to administer the ...

...(A) As used in sections 5166.30 to 5166.3010 of the Revised Code: (1) "Adult" means an individual at least eighteen years of age. (2) "Appropriate director" means the following: (a) The medicaid director in the context of both of the following: (i) The Ohio home care waiver program; (ii) The integrated care delivery system medicaid waiver component authorized by section 5166.16 of the Revised Code. ...

...vides home care attendant services: (1) The consumer; (2) The consumer's authorized representative, if any; (3) A registered nurse who agrees to answer any questions that the attendant, consumer, or authorized representative has about consumer care needs, medications, and other issues. (C) Document the activities of each visit required by division (B) of this section in the consumer's clinical record with...

...ttestation of both of the following: (1) That the consumer or consumer's authorized representative has demonstrated to the health care professional the ability to direct the attendant; (2) That the attendant has demonstrated to the health care professional the ability to provide the consumer assistance with nursing tasks or self-administration of medication that the health care professional has specifically a...

...all have the following payout limits: (1) Three hundred thousand dollars per year; (2) One million dollars for a participant's lifetime.

...e used only to pay for the following: (1) If the former participant has purchased a health insurance policy, the former participant's costs in purchasing the policy and paying for the former participant's out-of-pocket expenses under the policy for health care services and prescription drugs covered by the policy; (2) If the former participant has obtained health care coverage under an eligible employer-sponsored h...

...rector shall adopt rules under section 5166.02 of the Revised Code to do all of the following: (A) For the purpose of division (F)(1)(a) of section 5166.402 of the Revised Code, establish requirements regarding preventative health services for healthy Ohio program participants. The requirements may differ for participants of different ages and genders. (B) For the purpose of division (G)(2) of section 5166.402 of t...

...escribed in division (A)(2) of section 5167.16 of the Revised Code. Except as provided in section 5166.406 of the Revised Code, no medicaid recipient participating in the healthy Ohio program established under section 5166.40 of the Revised Code shall participate in the system. (C) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the general assembly's authorization through the enactment of legislation is needed befo...