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...Enforcement agents of the department of public safety may render assistance to a state or local law enforcement officer at the request of that officer or may render assistance to a state or local law enforcement officer in the event of an emergency. An enforcement agent who serves outside the department under this section shall be considered as performing services within the agent's regular employment for purposes of...

...The department of public safety shall conduct inspections of retail liquor permit premises to determine their compliance with Chapters 4301. and 4303. of the Revised Code and the rules adopted under them by the liquor control commission pertaining to retail liquor permit holders. Except as otherwise provided in this section, those inspections may be conducted only during those hours in which the permit holder is ope...

...As used in sections 5502.21 to 5502.51 of the Revised Code: (A) "Agency" means any administrative or operational division, including an office, department, bureau, board, commission, or authority, of the state or of a political subdivision thereof, including volunteer agencies, organizations, or departments. (B) "Attack" means any attack, either actual or imminent, or a series of attacks by an actual or pote...

...(A) There is hereby established within the department of public safety an emergency management agency, which shall be governed under rules adopted by the director of public safety under section 5502.25 of the Revised Code. The director, with the concurrence of the governor, shall appoint an executive director, who shall be head of the emergency management agency. The executive director may appoint a chief executive a...

...(A) The governor may designate by written proclamation an emergency temporary location, or locations, for the seat of government for use in the event an emergency renders it imprudent, inexpedient, or impossible to conduct the affairs of state government at the normal location of the seat thereof. He shall take such action and issue such orders as may be necessary for an orderly transition of the affairs of state g...

...The director of public safety, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt, may amend or rescind, and shall enforce rules with respect to the emergency management of the state for the purpose of providing protection for its people against any hazard. The rules shall be made available for public inspection at the emergency operations center/joint dispatch facility and at such other places and duri...

...(A) The board of county commissioners of a county and the chief executive of all or a majority of the other political subdivisions within the county may enter into a written agreement establishing a countywide emergency management agency. A representative from each political subdivision entering into the agreement, selected by the political subdivision's chief executive, shall constitute a countywide advisory group ...

...A board of county commissioners that has entered into an agreement to establish a countywide emergency management agency may appropriate money from its general fund to support the functions and operations of the agency, including the development, acquisition, operation, and maintenance of a countywide public safety communication system and any communication devices, radios, and other equipment necessary for the syste...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Administrator" means the superintendent, principal, chief administrative officer, or other person having supervisory authority of any of the following: (a) A city, exempted village, local, or joint vocational school district; (b) A community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code, as required through reference in division (A)(11)(d) of section 3314.03 of ...

...(A) As used in this section, "evidence-based" means a program or practice that does either of the following: (1) Demonstrates a rationale based on high-quality research findings or positive evaluation that such a program or practice is likely to improve relevant outcomes and includes ongoing efforts to examine the effects of the program or practice; (2) Has a statistically significant effect on relevant outcome...

...(A) In lieu of establishing a countywide emergency management agency under section 5502.26 of the Revised Code, the boards of county commissioners of two or more counties, with the consent of the chief executives of a majority of the participating political subdivisions of each county involved, may enter into a written agreement establishing a regional authority for emergency management. A representative from each p...

...The chief executive of any political subdivision that has not entered into a written agreement establishing either a countywide emergency management agency under section 5502.26 of the Revised Code or a regional authority for emergency management under section 5502.27 of the Revised Code shall establish a program for emergency management within that political subdivision that meets all of the following criteria: (A)...

...(A) In carrying out sections 5502.21 to 5502.51 of the Revised Code, the governor shall utilize the services, equipment, supplies, and facilities of existing agencies of the state and of political subdivisions to the maximum extent practicable, and the officers and personnel of all such agencies shall cooperate with and extend such services, equipment, supplies, and facilities to the governor and to the executive dir...

...(A) The executive director of the emergency management agency, jointly with the director of health, shall do both of the following: (1) Advise, assist, consult with, and cooperate with agencies and political subdivisions of this state to establish and maintain a statewide system for recruiting, registering, training, and deploying the types of volunteers reasonably necessary to respond to an emergency declare...

...(A) As used in this section, "political subdivision" has the same meaning as in section 5502.41 of the Revised Code. (B) Political subdivisions, in collaboration with other public and private agencies within this state, may develop mutual assistance or aid agreements for reciprocal emergency management assistance or aid for purposes of preparing for, responding to, and recovering from an incident, disaster, e...

...The governor may enter into mutual aid arrangements for reciprocal emergency management aid and assistance with other states and shall coordinate mutual aid plans between political subdivisions, between this state and other states, or between this state and the United States.

...(A) The state, any political subdivision, any municipal agency, any emergency management volunteer, another state, or an emergency management agency thereof or of the federal government or of another country or province or subdivision thereof performing emergency management services in this state pursuant to an arrangement, agreement, or compact for mutual aid and assistance, or any agency, member, agent, or represen...

...Each political subdivision may make appropriations for the payment of the expenses of its local activities for emergency management incurred by an agency established pursuant to section 5502.271 of the Revised Code or chargeable to that political subdivision by agreement in any county wherein a countywide agency for emergency management has been established pursuant to section 5502.26 of the Revised Code ...

...When any person, firm, or corporation offers to the state or to any political subdivision thereof services, equipment, supplies, materials, or funds by way of gift, grant, or loan for purposes of emergency management, the state or the political subdivision may accept the offer and, upon acceptance, may authorize any officer of the state or of the political subdivision, as the case may be, to receive the services, equ...

...No agency for emergency management established under sections 5502.21 to 5502.51 of the Revised Code shall participate in any form of political activity, nor shall it be employed directly or indirectly for any political purposes.

...No person shall be employed or associated in any capacity in any position or agency established under sections 5502.21 to 5502.51 of the Revised Code who advocates or has advocated a change by force or violence in the constitutional form of the government of the United States or of this state or who has been convicted of or is under indictment or information charging any subversive act against the United States or th...

...Notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of law, persons engaged in emergency management activities, members of emergency management agencies in this state, and members of the emergency management agencies of other states or of the federal government or of another country or of a province or subdivision thereof performing emergency management services at any place in this state pursuant to agreements, compacts, or...

...All courts shall take judicial notice of plans, ordinances, resolutions, rules, or orders adopted pursuant to sections 5502.21 to 5502.51 of the Revised Code. Such a plan, ordinance, resolution, rule, or order may be read in evidence, at any time, from a copy thereof, if there is contained on the same page or in the same publication in which the copy is contained a printed certificate of the secretary of state or of...

...(A) No person shall wear or display an emergency management insignia, bear official emergency management identification, or identify himself as being affiliated with or otherwise a member of an emergency management agency established under this chapter who is not a registered member of such an agency. (B) No person shall willfully and knowingly spread false rumors of a hazard for the purpose of instigating public pa...

...Except as provided in this section, sections 5502.21 to 5502.51 of the Revised Code and rules adopted under those sections do not apply to any activity carried out under Chapter 3750. of the Revised Code. A countywide or regional director/coordinator of emergency management appointed under section 5502.26 or 5502.27, or a director/coordinator appointed under 5502.271 of the Revised Code, respectively, may serve on t...