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...At the time of reception and at other times the director determines to be appropriate, the department of rehabilitation and correction may examine and test a prisoner for tuberculosis, HIV infection, hepatitis, including but not limited to hepatitis A, B, and C, and other contagious diseases. The department may test and treat involuntarily a prisoner in a state correctional institution who refuses to be tested or tre...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Mental illness" means a substantial disorder of thought, mood, perception, orientation, or memory that grossly impairs judgment, behavior, capacity to recognize reality, or ability to meet the ordinary demands of life. (2) "Person with a mental illness subject to hospitalization" means a person with a mental illness to whom any of the following applies because of the person's men...

...(A) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall have exclusive direction and control of the care and treatment of seriously mentally ill inmates who are in the department's custody. The department shall enter into any arrangements it considers desirable on such matters, including but not limited to both of the following: (1) The monitoring of such services by another state agency or agencies; (2) A...

...A minor whose case is transferred for criminal prosecution pursuant to section 2152.12 of the Revised Code, who is prosecuted as an adult and is convicted of or pleads guilty to one or more offenses in that case, and who is sentenced to a prison term or term of imprisonment in a state correctional institution for one or more of those offenses shall be considered emancipated for the purpose of consenting to medical tr...

...Any person who is required to report abuse or neglect of a child under eighteen years of age that is reasonably suspected or believed to have occurred or the threat of which is reasonably suspected or believed to exist pursuant to division (A) of section 2151.421 of the Revised Code, any person who is permitted to report or cause a report to be made of reasonably suspected abuse or neglect of a child under eighteen y...

...nt of administrative services, classify public buildings, offices, and institutions and determine the kinds, patterns, designs, and qualities of articles to be manufactured for use therein, which shall be uniform for each class, so far as practicable. Whenever the department of rehabilitation and correction gives written notice to the superintendent of purchases and printing, or other official having authority to pu...

...(A) The department of rehabilitation and correction, in accordance with rules adopted pursuant to division (B) of section 5145.03 of the Revised Code, shall determine and direct what lands belonging to institutions under its control shall be cultivated, the crops to be raised, and the use to be made of the land and crops, and may distribute the products among the different institutions. If the crops are distributed t...

... agriculture, department of health, and Ohio state university shall cooperate with the department of rehabilitation and correction in making such cooperative tests as are necessary to determine the quality, strength, and purity of supplies, the value and use of farm lands, or conditions and needs of mechanical equipment.

...onfidential and shall not be considered public records as defined in section 149.43 of the Revised Code. (F) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, records of inmates committed to the department of rehabilitation and correction as well as records of persons under the supervision of the adult parole authority shall not be considered public records as defined in section 149.43 of the Revised Co...

...ty assurance program activities, and an employee of the department of rehabilitation and correction shall not be liable in damages in a civil action for injury, death, or loss to person or property to any person for any acts, omissions, decisions, or other conduct within the scope of the functions of the quality assurance program. (3) Nothing in this section shall relieve any institution or individual from liability...

...Notwithstanding division (A) of section 5120.21 of the Revised Code, the department of rehabilitation and correction shall share the records described in that division with the director of job and family services to the extent necessary to effectuate the data matching agreements required under sections 4141.287 and 5101.041 of the Revised Code.

...essary to provide housing of department employees, including but not limited to expenses for the acquisition, construction, operation, maintenance, repair, reconstruction, or demolition of land and buildings. (C) The division may enter into a lease or agreement with a state agency, political subdivision of the state, or private entity to use facilities or other property under the jurisdiction of the department that ...

...e services and agricultural fund or the Ohio penal industries manufacturing fund created pursuant to section 5120.29 of the Revised Code and shall be used and accounted for as provided in that section.

...tive services adopts. All bids shall be publicly opened on the day and hour and at the place specified in the advertisement. Preference shall be given to bidders in localities wherein the institution is located if the price is fair and reasonable and not greater than the usual price. Bids not meeting the specifications shall be rejected. The department of administrative services may require such security as it cons...

...any of its bookkeepers, accountants, or employees to examine and check the records, accounts, and vouchers or take an inventory of the property of any institution, or do whatever is necessary, and pay the actual and reasonable expenses incurred in such service when an itemized account is filed and approved.

...ived by it or by its managing officers, employees, or agents while the moneys or funds are in the possession of the managing officers, employees, or agents. The funds are designated as follows: (1) Funds that are due and payable to the treasurer of state as provided by Chapter 131. of the Revised Code; (2) Funds that are held in trust by the managing officers, employees, or agents of the institution as local funds ...

...The department of rehabilitation and correction may assign, among the correctional and penal institutions under its control and in accordance with the rules adopted pursuant to division (B) of section 5145.03 of the Revised Code, the industries to be carried on by the institutions, having due regard to the location and convenience of the industries, other institutions to be supplied, to the machinery in the instituti...

...nstitutions shall be deposited into the Ohio penal industries manufacturing fund created pursuant to division (B) of section 5120.29 of the Revised Code and shall be used and accounted for as provided in that section and division (B) of section 5145.03 of the Revised Code.

...eby created, in the state treasury, the Ohio penal industries manufacturing fund, which shall be used for the: (1) Purchase of material, supplies, and equipment and the erection and extension of buildings used in manufacturing industries and agriculture; (2) Purchase of lands and buildings necessary to carry on or extend the manufacturing industries and agriculture upon the approval of the governor; (3) Payme...

...of the Revised Code, but no officer or employee of the institution under investigation is entitled to such fees. Any judge of the probate court or of the court of common pleas, upon application of the department, may compel the attendance of witnesses, the production of books or papers, and the giving of testimony before the department, by a judgment for contempt or otherwise, in the same manner as in cases be...

...The department of rehabilitation and correction may appoint and commission any competent agency or person, to serve without compensation, as a special agent, investigator, or representative to perform a designated duty for and in behalf of the department. Specific credentials shall be given by the department to each person so designated, and each credential shall state: (A) The name; (B) Agency with which such pers...

...In its annual report, the department of rehabilitation and correction shall include a complete financial statement of the various institutions under its control. The report shall state, as to each such institution, whether: (A) The moneys appropriated have been economically and judiciously expended; (B) The objects of the several institutions have been accomplished; (C) The laws in relation to such institutions ha...

...The annual report of the department of rehabilitation and correction shall include a list of the officers and agents employed, and the condition of the state institutions under its control. Such report may include statistics and information in regard to correctional institutions of this or other states.

...(A) Not later than the first day of April of each year, the department of rehabilitation and correction shall prepare an annual report covering the preceding calendar year that does all of the following: (1) Indicates the total number of persons sentenced to any institution, division, or place under its control and management who are delivered within that calendar year to its custody and control; (2) Indicat...

...ions under its control. Any officer or employee of the department or any officer or employee of any institution under its control, who, by solicitation or otherwise, exerts his influence, directly or indirectly, to induce any other officer or employee of any such institutions to adopt his political views or to favor any particular person, issue, or candidate for office shall be removed from his office or position, b...