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...When a living child's birth is recorded without a given name, a supplemental report of such given name may be completed and presented within one year after the birth to the local registrar in the registration district where the birth occurred or to the office of vital statistics.

...(A) For purposes of this section notwithstanding section 3705.01 of the Revised Code, "fetal death" does not include death of the product of human conception prior to twenty weeks of gestation. (B) Each death or fetal death that occurs in this state shall be registered with the local registrar of vital statistics of the district in which the death or fetal death occurred, by the funeral director or other person in...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Board of health" means a board of health of a city or general health district or the authority having the duties of a board of health under section 3709.05 of the Revised Code. (2) "Geocoding" means a geographic information system (GIS) operation for converting street addresses into spatial data that can be displayed as features on a map, usually by referencing address informat...

...(A) Except as provided in sections 5153.171 to 5153.173 of the Revised Code, any record, document, report, or other information presented to a fetal-infant mortality review board or a person abstracting such materials on the board's behalf, statements made by board members during board meetings, all work products of the board, and data submitted by the board to the department of health or a national infant death revi...

...Not later than the first day of April of each year, a fetal-infant mortality review board shall do both of the following: (A) Submit to the fetal-infant mortality database maintained by the department of health or the national infant death review database individual data pertaining to each fetal or infant death reviewed in that board's jurisdiction within the twelve months immediately before the submission. The spe...

...Each board of health of a city or general health district shall study and record the prevalence of disease within its district and provide for the prompt diagnosis and control of communicable diseases. The board may also provide for the medical and dental supervision of school children, for the free treatment of cases of venereal diseases, for the inspection of schools, public institutions, jails, workhouses, childre...

...(A) Each hospice care program licensed under this chapter that provides hospice care and services in a hospice patient's home shall establish a written policy establishing procedures to be followed in preventing the diversion of controlled substances containing opioids that are prescribed to its hospice patients. The policy shall include procedures for the disposal of any such drugs prescribed to a hospice patient as...

...(A) The director of environmental protection shall adopt, and may amend and rescind, rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code governing processing facilities and the inspection of and issuance of permits to install and licenses for those facilities. The rules shall ensure that the facilities will not create a nuisance, fire hazard, or health hazard or cause or contribute to air or water pollution. ...

...The director of environmental protection shall establish and maintain a database or databases composed of public information, including, but not limited to, the record made under section 3714.08 of the Revised Code of inspection of each construction and demolition debris facility, information from the annual survey of each health district made under section 3714.09 or 3734.08 of the Revised Code, as applicable, and g...

...(A) A retailer or terminal distributor of dangerous drugs that sells, offers to sell, holds for sale, delivers, or otherwise provides a pseudoephedrine product or ephedrine product to the public shall maintain a log book of all purchases of pseudoephedrine products or ephedrine products made without a valid prescription. The log book may be maintained in a tangible format, in an electronic format, or in both fo...

...The duty to comply with this section is subject to the conditions specified in section 3715.053 of the Revised Code. (A)(1) Beginning June 1, 2013, a retailer or terminal distributor of dangerous drugs shall submit the following information to the national precursor log exchange regarding each sale of pseudoephedrine product or ephedrine product that is not made pursuant to a valid prescription: (a) The purc...

...The director of health shall: (A) Adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for the efficient enforcement of section 3716.02 of the Revised Code; (B) Conduct examinations, inspections, and investigations for the purpose of establishing such regulations, through such officers of the department of health or the boards of health, as the director delegates; (C) Designate officers and employ...

...Pursuant to section 3717.04 of the Revised Code, the director of agriculture shall adopt rules regarding the following: (A) Licensing categories for retail food establishments and licensing requirements for each category, including appropriate practices for the activities performed by a retail food establishment; (B) Standards for collection of food samples from retail food establishments for purposes of identify...

...(A) The director of health, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt, and subsequently may amend and rescind, rules of general application throughout the state to administer this chapter. Rules adopted under division (A) of this section shall do at least all of the following: (1) Require that the appropriate board of health approve or disapprove the installation, operation, and alterati...

...(A) There is hereby created the sewage treatment system technical advisory committee consisting of the director of health or the director's designee and thirteen members who are knowledgeable about sewage treatment systems and technologies. The director or the director's designee shall serve as committee secretary and may vote on actions taken by the committee. Of the thirteen members, five shall be appointed by the ...

...The director of health shall do all of the following: (A) Administer and enforce this chapter and the rules adopted under it; (B) Examine records of boards of health, in accordance with rules adopted by the director, that are determined necessary to ascertain compliance with this chapter and rules adopted under it; (C) Review and approve or disapprove rules proposed by boards of health under division (B) of ...

...(A) A person who holds a license issued under section 4729.52 of the Revised Code granting authority with respect to controlled substances may sell at wholesale controlled substances to any of the following persons and is subject to the following conditions: (1) To another person who holds a license issued under section 4729.52 of the Revised Code granting authority with respect to controlled substances or to a ter...

...In the absence of gross negligence or intentional misconduct, a person who administers the drug naltrexone by injection, the person's employer, and the facility at which the drug is administered are not liable in any civil action or subject to criminal prosecution or professional discipline for any injury or damage caused by the injection or drug if all of the following conditions are met: (A) The individual to who...

...g it; or deliver such substance without recording in a book kept for the purpose, the name thereof, the quantity delivered, the purpose for which it is alleged to be used, the date of its delivery, the name and address of the purchaser, and the name of the dispenser; or fail to preserve said book for five years and submit it at all times for inspection to proper officers of the law.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Nursing facility" has the same meaning as in section 5165.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Deficiency" and "survey" have the same meanings as in section 5165.60 of the Revised Code. (3) "Title XIX" and "Title XVIII" have the same meanings as in section 5165.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The department of health is hereby designated the state agency responsible for establishing and...

...(A) The director of health shall adopt and publish rules governing the operation of homes, which shall have uniform application throughout the state, and shall prescribe standards for homes with respect to, but not limited to, the following matters: (1) The minimum space requirements for occupants and equipping of the buildings in which homes are housed so as to ensure healthful, safe, sanitary, and comfortab...

...(A) The director of health may petition the court of common pleas of the county in which the home is located for an order enjoining any person from operating a home without a license or enjoining a county home or district home that has had its license revoked from continuing to operate. The court shall have jurisdiction to grant such injunctive relief upon a showing that the respondent named in the petition is operat...

...For each resident of a home, all of the following apply with respect to a proposed transfer or discharge from the home: (A)(1) The administrator of a home shall notify a resident in writing, and the resident's sponsor in writing by certified mail, return receipt requested, in advance of any proposed transfer or discharge from the home. The administrator shall send a copy of the notice to the state department of he...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Home" and "residential care facility" have the same meanings as in section 3721.01 of the Revised Code; (2) "Provider agreement" has the same meaning as in section 5165.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "Sponsor" and "residents' rights advocate" have the same meanings as in section 3721.10 of the Revised Code. A home licensed under this chapter that is not a party to a provider ag...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Compassionate caregiver" means an individual who provides in-person visitation to a long-term care facility resident in compassionate care situations in accordance with this section. (2) "Long-term care facility" means a home, as defined in section 3721.01 of the Revised Code. "Long-term care facility" does not include any federal facility operated in this state, including a f...