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...rd, or commission of the state, or any political subdivision of the state, or any institution supported in whole or in part by public funds, authorized to enter into a contract for the construction of a public improvement or to construct a public improvement by the direct employment of labor. "Public authority" shall not mean any municipal corporation that has adopted a charter under sections three and seven o...

...(A) Public employees have the right to: (1) Form, join, assist, or participate in, or refrain from forming, joining, assisting, or participating in, except as otherwise provided in Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code, any employee organization of their own choosing; (2) Engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid and protection; (3) Representation by an empl...

...(A) Whenever a strike by public employees who are prohibited from striking under division (D)(1) of section 4117.14 of the Revised Code, a strike by other public employees during the pendency of the settlement procedures set forth in section 4117.14 of the Revised Code, or a strike during the term or extended term of a collective bargaining agreement occurs, the public employer may seek an injunction against the stri...

...(A) As used in sections 4121.01 to 4121.29 of the Revised Code: (1) "Place of employment" means every place, whether indoors or out, or underground, and the premises appurtenant thereto, where either temporarily or permanently any industry, trade, or business is carried on, or where any process or operation, directly or indirectly related to any industry, trade, or business, is carried on and where any person is dir...

...Sections 4101.01 to 4101.16 and 4121.01 to 4121.29 of the Revised Code do not deprive the legislative authority of any municipal corporation or any board of trustees or officer of any municipal corporation of any power or jurisdiction over or relative to any place of employment, provided that whenever the bureau of workers' compensation, by an order, fixes a standard of safety or any hygienic condition for employment...

...(A) The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for the health care partnership program administered by the bureau of workers' compensation to provide medical, surgical, nursing, drug, hospital, and rehabilitation services and supplies to an employee for an injury or o...

...(A) As used in sections 4121.61 to 4121.69 of the Revised Code, "self-insuring employer" has the same meaning as in section 4123.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt rules, take measures, and make expenditures as it deems necessary to aid claimants who have sustained compensable inju...

...(A) The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt rules: (1) For the encouragement of reemployment of claimants who have successfully completed prescribed rehabilitation programs by payment from the surplus fund established by section 4123.34 of the Revised Code to employers who employ or re-employ the claimants. The per...

...(A) The administrator of workers' compensation may establish compensation plans, including schedules of hourly rates, for the compensation of professional, administrative, and managerial employees who are employed to fulfill the duties placed upon the bureau of workers' compensation pursuant to sections 4121.61 to 4121.69 of the Revised Code. The administrator may establish rules or policies for the administrat...

...(A) Every employer shall keep records of, and furnish to the bureau of workers' compensation upon request, all information required by the administrator of workers' compensation to carry out this chapter. (B) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, every private employer employing one or more employees regularly in the same business, or in or about the same establishment, shall submit a payrol...

...(A) An adjudicating committee appointed by the administrator of workers' compensation to hear any matter specified in divisions (B)(1) to (7) of this section shall hear the matter within sixty days of the date on which an employer files the request, protest, or petition. An employer desiring to file a request, protest, or petition regarding any matter specified in divisions (B)(1) to (7) of this section shall file th...

...Money contributed by public employers constitutes the "public fund" and the money contributed by private employers constitutes the "private fund." Each such fund shall be collected, distributed, and its solvency maintained without regard to or reliance upon the other. Whenever in this chapter reference is made to the state insurance fund, the reference is to such two separate funds but such two separate funds and the...

...(A) The administrator of workers' compensation may do all of the following: (1) Utilize direct deposit of funds by electronic transfer for all disbursements the administrator is authorized to pay under this chapter and Chapters 4121., 4127., and 4131. of the Revised Code; (2) Require any payee to provide a written authorization designating a financial institution and an account number to which a payment made...

...The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt rules with respect to the collection, maintenance, and disbursements of the state insurance fund including all of the following: (A) A rule providing for ascertaining the correctness of any employer's report of estimated or actual expenditure of wages and the determination a...

...(A) The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt rules establishing a prospective payment system, which shall include all of the following: (1) A requirement that upon an initial application for coverage, a private employer shall file with the application an estimate of the employer's payroll for the period the administ...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, a payment required under this chapter or Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code, including a payment due for purposes of continuing coverage, is due on the date specified in those chapters, unless otherwise provided in a rule adopted by the administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of direct...

...(A) The employers providing work-based learning program is created. As soon as practicable after the effective date of this section, the administrator of workers' compensation, subject to the approval of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt a rule that prohibits the administrator from charging any amount with respect to a claim for compensation or benefits under this chapter or Chapt...

...Every public employer, except for boards of county hospital trustees that are self-insurers under section 4123.35 of the Revised Code, shall contribute to the public insurance fund the amount of money determined by the administrator of workers' compensation, and the manner of determining contributions and the classifications of employers is as provided in sections 4123.39 to 4123.41 and 4123.48 of the Revised Code.

...(A) For all injuries and disabilities occurring before January 1, 1987, the administrator of workers' compensation, for the purpose of carrying out sections 4123.412 to 4123.418 of the Revised Code and with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, may levy an assessment against all employers at a rate not to exceed ten cents per one hundred dollars of payroll. If the administr...

...The assessment rate established pursuant to section 4123.411 of the Revised Code, subject to the limits set forth in that section, shall be adequate to provide the amounts estimated as necessary by the administrator of workers' compensation to carry out the provisions of sections 4123.412 to 4123.418 of the Revised Code. For all injuries and disabilities occurring before January 1, 1987, the administrator, for the p...

...hall be paid to the general fund of the political subdivision where the case is prosecuted. (B) The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt rules governing treatment of employers found in violation of division (A) of this section. The rules shall cover enforcement and prosecution procedures and methods and grou...

...(A) Within seven days after receipt of any claim under this chapter, the bureau of workers' compensation shall notify the claimant and the employer of the claimant of the receipt of the claim and of the facts alleged therein. If the bureau receives from a person other than the claimant written or facsimile information or information communicated verbally over the telephone indicating that an injury or occupational di...

...(A) The jurisdiction of the industrial commission and the authority of the administrator of workers' compensation over each case is continuing, and the commission may make such modification or change with respect to former findings or orders with respect thereto, as, in its opinion is justified. No modification or change nor any finding or award in respect of any claim shall be made with respect to disability, compen...

...No agreement by an employee to waive an employee's rights to compensation under this chapter is valid, except that: (A) An employee who is blind may waive the compensation that may become due to the employee for injury or disability in cases where the injury or disability may be directly caused by or due to the employee's blindness. The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the ...

...(A) All contracts and agreements are void which undertake to indemnify or insure an employer against loss or liability for the payment of compensation to workers or their dependents for death, injury, or occupational disease occasioned in the course of the workers' employment, or which provide that the insurer shall pay the compensation, or which indemnify the employer against damages when the injury, disease, ...

... the federal government, the state, any political subdivision, or any other entity. A county land reutilization corporation shall not acquire an interest in real property if such acquisition causes the number of occupied real properties held by the corporation to exceed the greater of either fifty properties or twenty-five per cent of all real property held by the corporation for reutilization, reclamation, or rehabi...

...ix of whom shall be members of the same political party, shall be appointed by the chief justice: one judge of a court of appeals, three judges of courts of common pleas who are not juvenile court judges, three judges of juvenile courts, and three judges of municipal courts or county courts. Four members shall be the superintendent of the state highway patrol, the state public defender, the director of youth services...

...s filed by any authorized employee of a political subdivision or any authorized officer or employee of the state or a claim filed by a person designated under section 1925.18 of the Revised Code to act as the representative of a prosecuting attorney; (iii) Actions for the recovery of punitive or exemplary damages. (b) Division (A)(2)(a) of this section does not exclude either of the following: (i) Actions for t...

...ses incurred by the state or any of its political subdivisions in connection with the arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment of the wrongfully imprisoned individual, including, but not limited to, expenses for food, clothing, shelter, and medical services. The court shall reduce that sum by the amount of the payment to the wrongfully imprisoned individual described in division (B)(4) of this section. (2) If the wrong...

...(A) An action against a political subdivision to recover damages for injury, death, or loss to person or property allegedly caused by any act or omission in connection with a governmental or proprietary function, whether brought as an original action, cross-claim, counterclaim, third-party claim, or claim for subrogation, shall be brought within two years after the cause of action accrues, or within any applicable ...

...ise processes date data. (3) State and political subdivision have the same meaning as in section 2744.01 of the Revised Code. (4) Year 2000 compliant means a computer system or systems that are, or will be, capable of accurately processing, storing, providing and receiving date and time data from, into, and between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including the years 1999 and 2000, and leap-year calculatio...

...able by the offender to the state, to a political subdivision, or as described in division (B)(2) of this section to one or more law enforcement agencies, with the amount of the fine based on a standard percentage of the offender's daily income over a period of time determined by the court and based upon the seriousness of the offense. A fine ordered under this division shall not exceed the maximum conventional fine ...

...und violating, within the limits of the political subdivision, metropolitan housing authority housing project, regional transit authority police department's jurisdiction under Chapter 306. of the Revised Code, college, university, veterans' home operated under Chapter 5907. of the Revised Code, port authority, or municipal airport or other municipal air navigation facility, in which the peace officer is appointed, e...

...such obligations, or with any person or political subdivision; (F) Shall have jurisdiction, control, possession, and supervision of all property, rights, easements, licenses, moneys, contracts, accounts, liens, books, records, maps, or other property rights and interests conveyed, delivered, transferred, or assigned to it; (G)(1) Except as provided in division (G)(2) of this section, may acquire, construct, impro...