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...The director of administrative services may establish an employee exchange program for employees whose salary or wage is paid directly by warrant of the director of budget and management. The director of administrative services shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to provide for the administration of the program.

...As used in this section, "retirement" means disability or service retirement under any state or municipal retirement system in this state. (A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(3) of this section, an employee of a state college or university may elect, at the time of retirement from active service and with ten or more years of service with the state or any of its political subdivisions, to be paid in cash for on...

...r vacation leave. (B) The director of administrative services may establish a program under which an employee paid directly by warrant of the director of budget and management may donate that employee's accrued but unused paid leave to another employee paid directly by warrant of the director of budget and management who has no accrued but unused paid leave and who has a critical need for it because of circums...

...he Revised Code. (B) The director of administrative services may establish a voluntary cost savings program for exempt employees. (C) The director of administrative services shall establish a mandatory cost savings program applicable to exempt employees. Subject to division (C)(1) of this section, the program may include, but is not limited to, a loss of pay or loss of holiday pay as determined by the di...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Exempt employee" means a permanent full-time or permanent part-time county, township, or municipal corporation employee who is not subject to a collective bargaining agreement between a public employer and an exclusive representative. (2) "Fiscal emergency" means any of the following: (a) A fiscal emergency declared by the governor under section 126.05 of the Revised Code. (...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Exempt employee" means a permanent full-time or permanent part-time county employee, township, or municipal corporation who is not subject to a collective bargaining agreement between a public employer and an exclusive representative. (2) "Fiscal emergency" means any of the following: (a) A fiscal emergency declared by the governor under section 126.05 of the Revised Code. ...

...No person shall be eligible to receive an original appointment to a police department, as a police officer, subject to the civil service laws of this state, unless the person has reached the age of twenty-one and has, not more than one hundred twenty days prior to the date of such appointment, passed a physical examination, given by a licensed physician, a physician assistant, a clinical nurse specialist, a certified...

...Notwithstanding section 124.41 of the Revised Code, the appointing authority of a municipal corporation that has been incorporated pursuant to Chapter 707, of the Revised Code may grant an original appointment to a police department, as a policewoman or policeman, to a person who was employed on the date of incorporation as a full-time police officer of a township all or part of which was included in the corporation ...

...No person shall be eligible to receive an original appointment as a firefighter in a fire department, subject to the civil service laws of this state, unless the person has reached the age of eighteen and has, not more than one hundred twenty days prior to receiving such appointment, passed a physical examination, given by a licensed physician, a physician assistant, a clinical nurse specialist, a certified nur...

...Separate examinations shall be given and separate eligibility lists maintained by municipal and civil service township civil service commissions for original appointments to and promotions in fire and police departments in cities and civil service townships. No person may be transferred from one list to the other. Appointments and promotions in the departments shall be only from the separate eligible lists maintained...

...No positions above the rank of patrol officer in the police department shall be filled by original appointment. Vacancies in positions above the rank of patrol officer in a police department shall be filled by promotion from among persons holding positions in a rank lower than the position to be filled. No position above the rank of patrol officer in a police department shall be filled by any person unless th...

...oneously graded shall have the right to appeal to the commission, and the appeal shall be heard by the commission. The public notice of a holding of a promotional examination for a position or positions in a fire department shall, unless waived by all persons eligible to participate, be published not less than thirty days prior to the examination and shall contain a description of the source material from which th...

...The names of the examinees who have passed the examination shall be placed on the eligible list in accordance with their grades. The examinee receiving the highest grade shall be placed first on the list. If two or more examinees receive the same grade, seniority in the fire department service shall determine the order of their names. The person having the highest position on the list shall be appointed in the c...

...Within any rank, the municipal council or board of trustees of a civil service township may establish such special positions having special duties with preferential pay as the council or board deems necessary, but the holding of any such special positions shall not establish eligibility to the next higher rank to the exclusion of other persons in the same rank who do not hold such special positions. No special positi...

...Whenever a vacancy occurs in a promoted rank in a fire department and no eligible list for that rank exists, the appointing authority shall certify the fact to the civil service commission. The civil service commission, within sixty days of the vacancy, shall conduct a competitive promotional examination. After the examination has been held, an eligible list shall be established, and the civil service commissio...

...n ten days thereafter such employee may appeal from the decision or order of the appointing authority to the municipal or civil service township civil service commission, and the commission shall hear, or appoint a trial board to hear, such employee's appeal within thirty days from its filing with the commission. An appeal to determine the sufficiency of the cause of demotion may be had from the decision of the commi...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may, by ordinance, adopt a plan granting an increase in salary for authorized educational achievement attained prior to original appointment or during service by a policeman or fireman. Such a plan shall define the areas of education which qualify, set standards, and shall be applied uniformly among members of the police or fire department. Such areas of education ...

...Any person holding an office or position under the classified service in a fire department or a police department who is separated therefrom due to injury or physical disability incurred in the performance of duty shall be reinstated immediately, or one suffering injury or physical disability incurred other than in the performance of duty may be reinstated, upon filing with the chief of the fire department or the chi...

...In any city which by action of its legislative authority establishes the position of secretary of police or the position of secretary of fire, neither such position, if filled by a member of the uniform rank by assignment, shall be subject to competitive examination, notwithstanding section 124.44 of the Revised Code. The status within the uniform ranks of such member while so serving in such assignment shall remain ...

...In any city with a population of seven hundred thousand or more as shown by the last federal census, which by action of the legislative authority establishes within the police department a unit assigned to the control of traffic, a member of the police department of said city who is appointed the head of such unit by whatever title designated, shall not be subject to competitive examination, notwithstanding section 1...

...In any city which, by action of its legislative authority, establishes the position of superintendent of buildings or the position of superintendent of fire equipment, and appoints to either position a member of the uniform rank by assignment, such member is not subject to competitive examination, notwithstanding section 124.44 of the Revised Code. The status within the uniform ranks of such member while so serving i...

...Where a municipal civil service commission serves a city school district whose territory is located in more than one city, the board of education of such district shall, by resolution, appropriate each year, to be paid into the treasury of the municipal civil service commission's city, an amount sufficient to meet the portion of the board of education's cost of civil service administration. The amount shall be mutual...

...When the state personnel board of review or a municipal or civil service township civil service commission has reason to believe that any officer, board, commission, head of a department, or person having the power of appointment, layoff, suspension, or removal, has abused such power by making an appointment, layoff, reduction, suspension, or removal of an employee under his or their jurisdiction in violation of this...

...(A) No officer or employee in the classified service of the state, the several counties, cities, and city school districts of the state, or the civil service townships of the state shall directly or indirectly, orally or by letter, solicit or receive, or be in any manner concerned in soliciting or receiving, any assessment, subscription, or contribution for any political party or for any candidate for public of...

...No person or officer shall willfully or corruptly, by himself or in co-operation with one or more persons, defeat, deceive, or obstruct any person in respect of his right of examination, appointment, or employment according to sections 124.01 to 124.64 of the Revised Code, or to any rules or regulations prescribed pursuant to such sections; or willfully or corruptly, falsely mark, grade, estimate, or report upon the ...