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...(A) Prior to designating a new community action agency or rescinding a community action agency's designation, the department of job and family services shall: (1) Determine whether a community action agency is in compliance with section 5101.315 of the Revised Code; (2) Consult with the chief elected officials of political subdivisions located within a community action agency's service area, and, in designating ...

...The general assembly shall conduct public hearings on community services block grant funds, as required by section 676 of the "Community Services Block Grant Act," 42 U.S.C. 9901.

...(A) The department of job and family services and the department of children and youth shall work with the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation to develop procedures and formats necessary to produce the notices described in division (D) of section 109.5721 of the Revised Code in a format that is acceptable for use by the applicable department. Each department may adopt rules in ac...

...(A) As used in this section, "benefits" means any of the following: (1) Cash assistance paid under Chapter 5107. of the Revised Code; (2) Supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits provided under section 5101.54 of the Revised Code; (3) Any other program administered by the department of job and family services or the department of children and youth under which assistance is provided or service rendere...

...(A) As used in this section: (1)(a) "Agency" means the following entities that administer a family services program: (i) The department of job and family services; (ii) The department of children and youth; (iii) A county department of job and family services; (iv) A public children services agency; (v) A private or government entity administering, in whole or in part, a family services program for ...

...The department of job and family services or the department of children and youth may employ or contract with hearing officers to draft and recommend state hearing decisions under division (B) of section 5101.35 of the Revised Code. The department may employ or contract with hearing authorities to issue state hearing decisions under division (B) of section 5101.35 of the Revised Code. A hearing authority employed or ...

... services for any workers' compensation benefits payable to a person who is subject to a support order, as defined in section 3119.01 of the Revised Code, on behalf of the applicant, to the extent of any public assistance payments made on the applicant's behalf. If the director of job and family services, in consultation with a child support enforcement agency and the administrator of the bureau of workers' compensat...

...(A) The department of job and family services or the department of children and youth and each county department of job and family services and child support enforcement agency may conduct any audits or investigations that are necessary in the performance of their duties, and to that end they shall have the same power as a judge of a county court to administer oaths and to enforce the attendance and testimony of witn...

...The department of job and family services or the department of children and youth may appoint and commission any competent officer, employee, agency, or person to serve as a special agent, investigator, or representative to perform a designated duty for and in behalf of the department. Specific credentials shall be given by the department to each person so designated, and each credential shall state: (A) The person...

...The department of job and family services may call an annual conference, of the officials specified in section 5101.45 of the Revised Code and representatives of the various social agencies in the state, to be known as the "Ohio welfare conference." The conference shall: (A) Facilitate discussion of the problems and methods of practical human improvement; (B) Increase the efficiency of agencies and institutions dev...

...The necessary expenses of such officers and employees of the state, county, and municipal boards, benevolent and correctional institutions, officials responsible for the administration of public funds used for the relief and maintenance of the poor, officials authorized to administer laws on community control sanctions, and members of the boards of county visitors as are invited by the department of job and family s...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Title XX" means Title XX of the "Social Security Act," 88 Stat. 2337 (1974), 42 U.S.C.A. 1397, as amended. (2) "Respective local agency" means, with respect to the department of job and family services and the department of children and youth, a county department of job and family services; with respect to the department of mental health and addiction services, a board of alcoh...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Title IV-A" means Title IV-A of the "Social Security Act," 110 Stat. 2113 (1996), 42 U.S.C. 601, as amended. (2) "Title XX" has the same meaning as in section 5101.46 of the Revised Code. (B) To the extent authorized by federal law, the department of job and family services or the department of children and youth may use funds received through the Title IV-A temporary assistan...

...(A) Except as provided in divisions (B) and (C) of this section, both of the following apply to the department of job and family services: (1) The department shall accept applications, determine eligibility, redetermine eligibility, and perform related administrative activities for the supplemental nutrition assistance program administered by the department pursuant to section 5101.54 of the Revised Code. The d...

...The department of job and family services shall administer the distribution of food commodities received under the "Agricultural Adjustment Act," 48 Stat. 31, 7 U.S.C.A. 612c, as amended. The director of job and family services may adopt rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code and issue appropriate orders as necessary for administration of the distribution program.

...The department of job and family services shall administer funds received under the "Refugee Act of 1980," 94 Stat. 102, 8 U.S.C.A. 1521, as amended. In administering the funds, the department may establish a refugee cash assistance program and a state legalization impact assistance program. The director of job and family services may adopt rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code and issue a...

...The department of job and family services may enter into an agreement with the secretary of health and human services under Public Law 93-66 for the purpose of supplementing the payments of recipients of aid under Title XVI of the "Social Security Act," 49 Stat. 620 (1935), 42 U.S.C. 301, as amended, to the extent necessary to provide individuals who were recipients of aid in December 1973 under former Chapters 5105....

...pplemental nutrition assistance program benefits for investigative purposes, and meeting any other requirements necessary for the detection and deterrence of illegal activities in the supplemental nutrition assistance program; (7) Adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code governing employment and training requirements of recipients of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits, includ...

...The supplemental nutrition assistance program fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of federal reimbursement for supplemental nutrition assistance program administrative expenses and other supplemental nutrition assistance program expenses. The department of job and family services shall use the money credited to the fund to pay for supplemental nutrition assistance p...

... transfer card containing the amount of benefits the household is eligible to receive under the program. The card shall be sent to the member of the household in whose name application for the supplemental nutrition assistance program was made or that member's authorized representative. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, the department shall replace any electronic benefit transfer card that is...

...To ensure program integrity within the supplemental nutrition assistance program, the department of job and family services shall periodically monitor the balances of supplemental nutrition assistance program accounts. If the department discovers an account with a balance that exceeds five thousand dollars, the department shall take steps to determine whether the account is inactive and, if inactive, identify the cau...

...If the benefits of a household are reduced under a federal, state, or local means-tested public assistance program for failure of a member of the household to perform an action required under the program, the household may not receive, for the duration of the reduction, an increased allotment of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits as the result of a decrease in the income of the household to the...

...The director of job and family services shall submit an application to the United States department of agriculture for participation in the elderly simplified application project within the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

...m; (c) Errors resulting from the Ohio benefits program on a statewide basis. (C) Prior to implementing the methodology and technical system required under division (B) of this section, the department of job and family services shall consult with the chairpersons of the finance committees of both the house of representatives and the senate. (D) Upon implementation of the methodology and technical system, the dep...

...(A) The department of job and family services shall redesign the employment and training program established under rules adopted by the department pursuant to division (A)(7) of section 5101.54 of the Revised Code. In redesigning the employment and training program, the department shall ensure that the new program meets the needs of employers in this state. (B) Not later than July 1, 2024, the department shall app...

...(A) Upon a petition being filed and a bond given as provided for the location and construction of an improvement, and upon the same proceedings with notice to interested parties for a hearing upon the petition, and with the same hearing as is provided for the location of an improvement, the board of county commissioners may determine whether any ditch or drain described in the petition has ceased to be a public utili...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Owner," "person," "public corporation," "land," "benefit," and "improvement" have the same meanings as in section 6131.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "Lead county" means the county in which the majority of the initial length of a joint county drainage improvement would be located, as specified in an original petition filed under section 6133.02 of the Revised Code.

...(A) If a joint board of county commissioners approves a proposed joint drainage improvement but, at the final hearing for the improvement, is unable to agree on the amount to be assessed to an affected county for improvements conducive to the public welfare, or of benefit to public highways or land owned by an affected county, the joint board shall by resolution state that the joint board is not able to agree on the ...

...The further proceedings of the joint board of county commissioners shall be in conformity with the laws for the location of county or joint county ditches taken at this stage of the proceedings. The boards of county commissioners, at their hearing on the apportionment made, may assess any other owners and lands not mentioned in the first report of the engineers, which they deem to be benefited thereby. The owners sha...

...When the board of county commissioners finds on file with the clerk of the board of county commissioners a petition praying for the location or improvement of a ditch, drain, or watercourse in such county, the waters from which flow into or through an adjoining county in another state, and it is of the opinion that the outlet for such proposed improvement is insufficient, it may enter into an agreement with the prope...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Owner," "benefit," "lead county," and "improvement" have the same meanings as in section 6131.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "Force account" has the same meaning as in section 5543.19 of the Revised Code.

...(A) Whenever the owner of any lands assessed for construction of an improvement authorized prior to August 23, 1957, files a written complaint that the improvement is in need of repair, the county engineer or the county engineer's designated representative shall make an inspection of the condition of the improvement within sixty days of receipt of the complaint and shall request the owner to be present at the inspect...

...(A) At the time that the board of county commissioners reviews the permanent assessment base of an improvement after six annual assessments have been made as provided in section 6137.11 of the Revised Code, the board may request the county engineer to estimate the construction cost of the improvement if that improvement were to be constructed at the time of the permanent assessment base review. Not less than thirty d...

...The board of county commissioners shall order the amounts, as provided in section 6155.09 of the Revised Code, to be placed upon the tax duplicate against the real estate of the petitioners and all other landowners benefited by the removal of the milldam. Such amounts shall be collected within the time and to meet the payments as far as practicable as provided in the laws relating to county ditches, whether agreed up...

...The "great lakes basin compact" is hereby ratified, enacted into law, and entered into by this state as a party thereto with any other state or province which, pursuant to Article II of said compact, has legally joined in the compact as follows: GREAT LAKES BASIN COMPACT The party states solemnly agree: Article I The purposes of this compact are, through means of joint or co-operative action: (A) To promote...

...haring by counties and townships in the benefits of economic development even if the economic development does not occur in an unincorporated area. (I) Nothing in this section expands or diminishes the exception of public utilities from certain regulations.

... as that purpose directly or indirectly benefits the territory of the dissolved village. (H) Resolutions related to property taxes levied by the board of trustees of a township shall apply to all taxable property within the former village territory dissolved into the township on and after the first day of the first taxable year in which, pursuant to divisions (B) and (C) of this section, no property taxes are levie...

... be entitled to the same salary, future benefits, vacations, earned time, sick leave, and other rights and privileges as the municipal fire department extends to other employees with the same amount of prior service. The person may take promotional examinations only after completion of one year of service with the municipal fire department and after meeting any applicable civil service requirements for such examinati...

...d to be annexed will be served, and the benefits to the territory proposed to be annexed and the surrounding area will outweigh the detriments to the territory proposed to be annexed and the surrounding area, if the annexation petition is granted. As used in division (A)(5) of this section, "surrounding area" means the territory within the unincorporated area of any township located one-half mile or less from any of ...

...l purposes in substantial excess of the benefits conferred by reason of such lands being within the municipal corporation, and that said lands may be detached without materially affecting the best interests or good government of such municipal corporation or of the territory therein adjacent to that sought to be detached; then an order and decree may be made by the court, and entered on the record, that the lands be ...

...Any board of county commissioners and the legislative authority of a municipality may cooperate with other such boards or authorities of this state and of any adjoining state to create by agreement an interstate regional planning commission, whenever such subdivisions comprise a region which would benefit from cooperative governmental planning. An interstate regional planning commission may also be created by compac...

...se of the drainage in proportion to the benefits which result from the improvement, in accordance with the provision for assessment as provided by section 727.01 of the Revised Code.

...lization of any of the forest and water benefits that may properly accrue therefrom to the municipal corporation; (Z) Acquire real property by purchase, gift, or devise and construct and maintain on it public swimming pools, either within or outside the limits of the municipal corporation; (AA) Construct or rehabilitate, equip, maintain, operate, and lease facilities for housing of elderly persons and for persons o...

... at the location directly or indirectly benefits the employer; (3) Any other location, if the tax administrator determines that the employer directed the employee to perform the services at the other location in lieu of a location described in division (C)(1) or (2) of this section solely in order to avoid or reduce the employer's municipal income tax liability. If a tax administrator makes such a determination, t...

...(A)(1) Each employer, agent of an employer, or other payer located or doing business in a municipal corporation that imposes a tax on income in accordance with this chapter shall withhold from each employee an amount equal to the qualifying wages of the employee earned by the employee in the municipal corporation multiplied by the applicable rate of the municipal corporation's income tax, except for qualifying wages ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Nonqualified deferred compensation plan" means a compensation plan described in section 3121(v)(2)(C) of the Internal Revenue Code. (2)(a) Except as provided in division (A)(2)(b) of this section, "qualifying loss" means the excess, if any, of the total amount of compensation the payment of which is deferred pursuant to a nonqualified deferred compensation plan over the total a...

...(A) As used in this section, "claim" means a claim for an amount payable to a municipal corporation that arises pursuant to the municipal income tax imposed in accordance with this chapter. (B) Nothing in this chapter prohibits a tax administrator from doing either of the following if such action is in the best interests of the municipal corporation: (1) Compromise a claim; (2) Extend for a reasonable period the t...

... at the location directly or indirectly benefits the employer; (3) Any other location, if the tax commissioner determines that the employer directed the employee to perform the services at the other location in lieu of a location described in division (C)(1) or (2) of this section solely in order to avoid or reduce the employer's municipal income tax liability. If the tax commissioner makes such a determination, t...

...Any municipal corporation having jurisdiction over any part of the territory mentioned in section 721.04 of the Revised Code, whether in front of privately owned upland or otherwise, as provided in that section, may, in aid of navigation and water commerce, adopt plans for the development of that waterfront, construct bulkheads at such locations as it approves between the shoreline and the harbor line as fixed by the...

...A municipal corporation may contract with any corporation, company, partnership, association, or person maintaining overhead cables, wires, and appurtenant equipment on a street of the municipal corporation for the relocation of such overhead cables, wires, and appurtenant equipment underground within the limits of the street. Such contract shall provide for the payment of the contract price by the municipal corporat...