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...(A) The director of developmental disabilities shall adopt rules establishing procedures for administrative resolution of complaints filed under division (B) of this section and section 5126.06 of the Revised Code. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, any person or county board of developmental disabilities th...

...The department of developmental disabilities shall determine whether county boards of developmental disabilities violate the rights that individuals with developmental disabilities have under section 5126.046 of the Revised Code to obtain home and community-based services, ICF/IID services, nonmedicaid residential services, or nonmedicaid supported living from qualified and willing providers. The department shall pro...

...No person or government entity shall receive payment for providing home and community-based services unless the person or government entity is one of the following: (A) Certified under section 5123.161 of the Revised Code; (B) Licensed as a residential facility under section 5123.19 of the Revised Code.

...The department of developmental disabilities shall pay the nonfederal share of medicaid expenditures for medicaid case management services and home and community-based services for which no county board of developmental disabilities is required by section 5126.059 or 5126.0510 of the Revised Code to pay.

...The director of developmental disabilities may enter into an agreement with a county board of developmental disabilities under which the department of developmental disabilities is to pay the nonfederal share of medicaid expenditures for one or more of the home and community-based services that the county board would, if not for the agreement, be required by section 5126.0510 of the Revised Code to pay....

...The director of developmental disabilities shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code governing the authorization and payment of home and community-based services and medicaid case management services. The rules shall provide for private providers of the services to receive one hundred per cent of the medicaid allowable payment amount and for government providers of the services to re...

...An individual with a developmental disability who moves from one county in this state to another county in this state shall receive home and community-based services in the new county that are comparable in scope to the home and community-based services the individual receives in the prior county at the time the individual moves. If the county board serving the county to which the individual moves determines under se...

...The department of developmental disabilities may bring a mandamus action against a county board of developmental disabilities that fails to pay the nonfederal share of medicaid expenditures that the county board is required by sections 5126.059 and 5126.0510 of the Revised Code to pay. The department may bring the mandamus action in the court of common pleas of the county served by the county board or in the ...

...(A) The department of developmental disabilities may charge each county board of developmental disabilities an annual fee not to exceed one and one-quarter per cent of the total value of all medicaid paid claims for home and community-based services provided during the year to an individual eligible for services from the county board. A county board shall not pass on to a provider of home and community-based services...

...The department of developmental disabilities, in consultation with the department of medicaid, office of budget and management, and county boards of developmental disabilities, shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to establish both of the following in the event a county property tax levy for services for individuals with developmental disabilities fails: (A) A method of paying for ho...

...e deemed received as of the date of the publication. If the notice concerns taking action under section 5123.166, 5123.168, 5123.19, 5123.45, or 5126.25 of the Revised Code and the resent notice is returned to the director for failure of delivery not later than thirty days after the date the director sent the original notice, the director shall resend the notice to the party a second time. The notice shall be deeme...

...Each person and each government entity that applies for or holds a valid license, certification, or registration issued under section 5123.161, 5123.19, 5123.45, or 5126.25 of the Revised Code shall notify the director of developmental disabilities of any change in the person's or government entity's address.

...(A) Subject to the availability of funds appropriated to the department of developmental disabilities for medicaid waiver state match, the department shall expend, in fiscal year 2009 and each fiscal year thereafter, not less than the amount appropriated in appropriation item 322-416, medicaid waiver - state match, in fiscal year 2008 to do both of the following: (1) Pay the nonfederal share of medicaid ex...

...ith intensive behavioral needs to their public school district; (5) Contribute to the field of early and effective identification and intervention programs for children with intensive behavioral needs by providing financial support for scholarly research and publication of clinical findings. (B) The director of developmental disabilities shall collaborate with the medicaid director and consult with the executive di...

...(A) In addition to other authority granted the director of developmental disabilities for use of funds appropriated to the department of developmental disabilities, the director may use such funds for the following purposes: (1) All of the following to assist persons with developmental disabilities remain in the community and avoid institutionalization: (a) Behavioral and short-term interventions; (b) Residential ...

... meetings per year that are open to the public for the purposes of reporting its work and hearing public feedback.

...As used in this section, "evidence-based intervention" means a prevention or treatment service that has been demonstrated through scientific evaluation to produce a positive outcome. The department of developmental disabilities shall establish a voluntary training and certification program for individuals who provide evidence-based interventions to individuals with an autism spectrum disorder. The department ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Official member" means a member of an official workgroup who was appointed by the director of developmental disabilities. (2) "Official workgroup" means a workgroup, task force, council, committee, or similar entity that has been established by the director of developmental disabilities under the director's express or implied statutory authority. (B) Subject to division (C) of ...

...nt in connection with an audit are not public records under section 149.43 of the Revised Code until a report of the audit is released by the department.

...(A) If the department of developmental disabilities determines pursuant to an audit conducted under section 5123.05 of the Revised Code that money is owed the state by a provider of a service or program, the department may enter into a payment agreement with the provider. The agreement shall include the following: (1) A schedule of installment payments whereby the money owed the state is to be paid in full wi...

...The director of developmental disabilities may establish divisions in the department of developmental disabilities and prescribe their powers and duties. Each division shall consist of a deputy director and the officers and employees, including those in institutions, necessary for the performance of the functions assigned to it. The director shall supervise the work of each division and be responsible fo...

...There may be created in the department of developmental disabilities a bureau of research. The bureau shall: (A) Plan, direct, and coordinate all research programs conducted by the department; (B) Provide continuing evaluation of research programs; (C) Direct and coordinate scientific investigations and studies as undertaken under this section. The department shall institute and encourage scientific investi...

...dination, discourteous treatment of the public, neglect of duty, violation of this chapter or Chapter 124. of the Revised Code, the rules of the director of developmental disabilities or the director of administrative services, any other failure of good behavior, any other acts of misfeasance, malfeasance, or nonfeasance in office, or conviction of a felony while employed in the civil service. An employee also forfei...

...ained pursuant to this section is not a public record for purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code and shall not be made available to any person, other than the following: (a) The applicant or employee who is the subject of the report or the applicant's or employee's representative; (b) The responsible entity that requested the report or its representative; (c) The department if a county board, provide...

...Subject to the rules of the department of developmental disabilities, each institution under the jurisdiction of the department shall be under the control of a managing officer to be known as a superintendent or by other appropriate title. The managing officer shall be appointed by the director of developmental disabilities and shall be in the unclassified service and serve at the pleasure of the director. Eac...

...(A) A subdivision may, if authorized by the taxing authority and upon the request of and at the expense of the original purchaser, in the case of initial delivery of securities, or holder of coupon securities, issue fully registered securities in lieu of or in exchange for coupon securities in a principal amount not exceeding the unpaid principal amount of the coupon securities. Such fully registered securities shall...

...(A) A subdivision shall keep or cause to be kept a register for the purpose of effecting the exchange, transfer, and payment of fully registered securities, which shall show the date, series, denomination, and owner of such fully registered securities and, if the case, the number and series of the coupon securities for which they were exchanged. (B) A subdivision shall pay or cause to be paid the debt charges on ful...

...(A) A subdivision may register any coupon security registrable as to principal upon the request of the owner or holder. The officer in charge of the bond retirement fund or, if there is no such officer, the fiscal officer of the subdivision shall note the registration on the security. Thereafter, no transfer shall be valid unless the transfer is entered on the records of the subdivision and similarly noted on the sec...

...When any officers, boards, or commissions have consented to any exchange or plan of exchange as provided in section 133.49 of the Revised Code, any officer having possession of any notes or bonds to be exchanged for refunding bonds shall deliver them pursuant to such exchange or plan and he shall receive the bonds to be issued in exchange therefor, together with any cash to be paid pursuant to such plan.

...oration, or township may issue or incur public obligations, including general obligations, to provide, or assist in providing, housing pursuant to Section 16 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution.

...tion, or township may issue or incur public obligations, including general obligations, to provide, or assist in providing, grants, loans, loan guarantees, or contributions for conservation and revitalization purposes pursuant to Sections 2o and 2q of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution.

...Whenever bonds issued in anticipation of the collection of special assessments are refunded, as authorized by section 133.37 of the Revised Code, the taxing authority may reassess against each lot or parcel of land upon which the original assessments were levied and are due and unpaid, the due and unpaid part of the installments of such assessments with interest. Whenever, irrespective of the issuance of any refundin...

...cal officer shall prepare and file for public inspection a list containing the names of the owners, a tax duplicate description of each parcel of land on which the reassessment will be levied, and the total amount to be reassessed, separately stated as to each parcel, and the taxing authority shall publish notice for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the political subdivision, or a...

...After the taxing authority has approved the assessments provided for in section 133.54 of the Revised Code, like proceedings shall be had for the levy, certification, payment, and collection of said assessments as apply to the levy, certification, payment, and collection of original assessments, and all laws relating to the levy, certification, payment, and collection of original assessments, except as otherwise set ...

...Whenever a political subdivision has started proceedings under section 133.54 of the Revised Code to reassess any original assessment installments against any lot or parcel of land, and there is pending, or prior to the cancellation of the original assessment installments there is commenced, a suit in any manner involving the lien of such original assessment or assessment installments, the lien of any such reassessme...

...(A) As used in this section and in section 133.61 of the Revised Code: (1) "Agricultural easement" has the same meaning as in section 5301.67 of the Revised Code. (2) "Bonds" means notes or bonds. (B) The board of county commissioners of a county may issue bonds for the purpose of acquiring agricultural easements. The issuance of the bonds is subject to this chapter, except that their maturity shall not extend bey...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation, board of county commissioners of a county, or board of township trustees of a township may issue general obligation bonds for the purpose of acquiring agricultural easements. The bonds shall be issued in the manner provided in section 133.18 of the Revised Code and pursuant to this chapter. All moneys raised by the issuance of bonds under this section, after paym...

...son issuing fractionalized interests in public obligations, an obligor, and, in the case of public obligations, the public issuer. (2) "Securities" also includes public obligations as defined in division (GG)(2) of section 133.01 of the Revised Code and fractionalized interests in public obligations, both referred to in this section as "division (A)(2) securities." (B)(1) An issuer, at any time prior to its issuanc...

...Whoever violates division (C) of section 133.33 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Public employee" means: (1) Any person holding an office, not elective, under the state or any county, township, municipal corporation, park district, conservancy district, sanitary district, health district, metropolitan housing authority, state retirement board, Ohio history connection, public library, county law library, union cemetery, joint hospital, institutional commissary, ...

...In addition to the membership of the public employees retirement system as prescribed in division (A) of section 145.01 of the Revised Code and notwithstanding Chapter 3309. of the Revised Code, there shall be included in such membership all of the following: (A) The nonteaching employees of the Cleveland state university and the northeast Ohio medical university; (B) Any person who elects to transfer from the scho...

...(A) "Public employee," as defined in division (A) of section 145.01 of the Revised Code, does not include any person: (1) Who is employed by a private, temporary-help service and performs services under the direction of a public employer or is employed on a contractual basis as an independent contractor under a personal service contract with a public employer; (2) Who is an emergency employee serving on a tempora...

...A member of the public employees retirement system who on the effective date of this section is employed as a fireman in a position requiring satisfactory completion of a fire fighter training course approved under section 3303.07 of the Revised Code or conducted under section 3737.33 of the Revised Code may elect to remain a contributing member of the retirement system by giving notice to the system not later than n...

...(A) "Employer" or "public employer," as defined in division (D) of section 145.01 of the Revised Code, does not include a regional council created under Chapter 167. of the Revised Code that meets all of the following criteria: (1) Membership in the council consists of political subdivisions of Ohio and at least two other states; (2) The primary purpose of the council is regional transportation planning; (3) The c...

... to remain a contributing member of the public employees retirement system by giving notice to the system not later than ninety days after the effective date of this section. The election once made is irrevocable.

...service was full-time or part-time. The public employees retirement board has no authority to reduce the credit.

...(A) For a member eligible for a retirement allowance under division (A) or (B) of section 145.32 of the Revised Code or division (A), (B), or (E)(1), (3), or (4) of section 145.332 of the Revised Code, the number of years used in the calculation of final average salary shall be three and the sum of the earnable salary for those years shall be divided by three. (B) For a member eligible for a retirement allowance u...

...ection 145.016 of the Revised Code, the public employees retirement board shall grant a full year of service credit to a member of the retirement system if all of the following conditions are met: (A) The member is employed by a county board of developmental disabilities. (B) The member's employment is in a position that would be covered by Chapter 3309. of the Revised Code if the member was employed by a public ...

...(A) A public employees retirement system is hereby created for the public employees of the state and of the several local authorities mentioned in section 145.01 of the Revised Code. Except as provided in division (B) of this section, membership in the system is compulsory upon being employed and shall continue as long as public employment continues. (B) A student who is not a member at the time of his employment wi...

...xempt from compulsory membership in the public employees retirement system and to continue contributing membership in the city of Cincinnati retirement system on and after that date, by filing a written request for exemption from the public employees retirement system, which request shall bear the signature of the employee, with the public employees retirement board, provided that exemptions permitted by this divisio...