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...(A) The medicaid director shall impose a penalty for each day that a hospital fails to report the information required under section 5168.05 of the Revised Code on or before the dates specified in that section. The amount of the penalty shall be established by the director in rules adopted under section 5168.02 of the Revised Code. (B) In addition to any other remedy available to the department of medicaid under law...

...(A) As used in this section and sections 5180.15, 5180.16, and 5180.17 of the Revised Code: (1) "Child care center," "type A family child care home," and "licensed type B family child care home" have the same meanings as in section 5104.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Child care facility" means a child care center, a type A family child care home, or a licensed type B family child care home. (3) "Foster caregiv...

...The board of county commissioners of any county, at any time and in any year, after providing the normal and customary percentages of the total general fund appropriations for the support of county hospitals, by vote of two-thirds of all members of said board, may declare by resolution that the amount of taxes which may be raised within the ten-mill limitation will be insufficient to provide an adequate amount ...

...(A) If an accused being tried by a general court-martial is found incompetent to stand trial, after the expiration of the maximum time for treatment as specified in division (C) of section 5924.503 of the Revised Code or after the court finds that there is not a substantial probability that the accused will become competent to stand trial even if the accused is provided with a course of treatment, one of the followin...

...When the legislative authority of a municipal corporation enters upon and takes possession of grounds purchased, appropriated, or otherwise obtained for hospital purposes, and, by resolution or ordinance, determines to erect thereon or rebuild a hospital, the erection and repair thereof or any addition thereto shall be vested in the board of hospital commissioners, as established under this section. Such boar...

...The board of hospital commissioners may appoint a clerk, an architect, a superintendent, and other necessary employees, fix their compensation, adopt a suitable plan for the hospital, and make all contracts for the erection and furnishing thereof. The salaries of appointees and the plan of the hospital, before any contract for such hospital's erection is entered into, shall be submitted to and approved by the legisla...

...The board of hospital commissioners shall hold regular meetings at such time and place as is agreed upon, and shall keep a complete record of its proceedings. No contract which the board enters into shall be valid until concurred in at a regular meeting by a majority of all the members thereof, and such concurrence entered on the minutes of its proceedings. Members of the board of hospital commissioners may attend ...

...The governing body of any publicly owned hospital may authorize such hospital to be a member of and maintain membership in any local, state, or national group or association organized and operated for the promotion of the public health and welfare or advancement of the efficiency of hospital administration and in connection therewith to use tax funds for the payment of dues and fees not to exceed, in the aggreg...

...In the management of a city infirmary, in the care and treatment of the inmates thereof, and in the erection, enlargement, or repair of any building for infirmary purposes, or of any addition thereto, the director of public safety shall have the same powers, be governed by the same regulations, and perform the same duties, as far as applicable, as are vested in a board of hospital commissioners established under sec...

...rs: (1) To consider the appointment, employment, dismissal, discipline, promotion, demotion, or compensation of a public employee or official, or the investigation of charges or complaints against a public employee, official, licensee, or regulated individual, unless the public employee, official, licensee, or regulated individual requests a public hearing. Except as otherwise provided by law, no public body shall...

...(A) As used in this section, "death benefit fund recipient" means any recipient of a death benefit paid under section 742.63 of the Revised Code except a parent who receives a death benefit paid under division (E) of that section. (B)(1) Except as otherwise provided under division (B)(3) of this section, a death benefit fund recipient may elect to participate in any health, medical, hospital, dental, surgical, or vi...

...that the person's compensation for that employment is derived from funds of a person or entity other than the employer. Credit for such service shall be included as total service credit, provided that the employee makes the payments required by this chapter, and the employer makes the payments required by sections 145.48 and 145.51 of the Revised Code. (4) A person who elects in accordance with section 145.015 of ...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Alliance" or "small employer health care alliance" means an existing or newly created organization that has been granted a certificate of authority by the superintendent of insurance under section 1731.021 of the Revised Code and that is either of the following: (1) A chamber of commerce, trade association, professional organization, or any other organization that has all of the follow...

...(A) There is hereby created within the department of health the second chance trust fund advisory committee, consisting of eleven members. The members shall include the following: (1) One representative of each of the following appointed by the director of health: (a) An Ohio organ procurement organization that is a member of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network; (b) An Ohio tissue bank that is ...

...(A)(1)(a) No person described in division (A)(1)(b) of this section who is acting in an official or professional capacity and knows, or has reasonable cause to suspect based on facts that would cause a reasonable person in a similar position to suspect, that a child under eighteen years of age, or a person under twenty-one years of age with a developmental disability or physical impairment, has suffered or faces a th...

...Notwithstanding Chapter 3798. of the Revised Code and to the extent permitted by federal law, if a child is under the care and supervision of a residential facility and presents to an emergency department or is admitted to a hospital for an injury or mental health crisis, the emergency department or hospital shall report the visit to the Ohio resilience through integrated systems and excellence (OhioRISE) program, if...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a written contract between a patient and a hospital or healthcare provider to settle by binding arbitration any dispute or controversy arising out of the diagnosis, treatment, or care of the patient rendered by a hospital or healthcare provider, that is entered into prior to the diagnosis, treatment, or care of the patient is valid, irrevocable, and enforceable ...

...Every hospital of this state that offers organized emergency services shall provide that a physician, a physician assistant, a clinical nurse specialist, a certified nurse practitioner, or a certified nurse-midwife is available on call twenty-four hours each day for the examination of persons reported to any law enforcement agency to be victims of sexual offenses cognizable as violations of any provision of sec...

...(A) If a person is found not guilty by reason of insanity, the verdict shall state that finding, and the trial court shall conduct a full hearing to determine whether the person is a person with a mental illness subject to court order or a person with an intellectual disability subject to institutionalization by court order. Prior to the hearing, if the trial judge believes that there is probable cause that the perso...

...(A) If the interests of the county so require, the board of county commissioners may sell any real property belonging to the county and not needed for public use, including all or portions of buildings acquired by the board to house county offices, or may lease or rent the same, but no such lease shall be for a longer term than five years, unless such lease is part of a lease-purchase agreemen...

...The board of county commissioners of any county may, by resolution, establish a county microfilming board. The county microfilming board shall consist of the county treasurer or the treasurer's representative, the county auditor or the auditor's representative, the clerk of the court of common pleas or the clerk's representative, a member or representative of the board of county commissioners chosen by the boar...

...(A) In lieu of having a county records commission and a county microfilming board, a board of county commissioners may, by resolution, require the county automatic data processing board established under section 307.84 of the Revised Code to coordinate the management of information resources of the county, the records and information management operations of all county offices, and the various records and infor...

...Code do not prevent the appointment and employment of assistants, clerks, and stenographers to assist the prosecuting attorney as provided in sections 309.01 to 309.15 of the Revised Code, or the appointment by the court of common pleas or the court of appeals of an attorney to assist the prosecuting attorney in the trial of a criminal cause pending in that court, or the board of county commissioners from paying for ...

...The department of job and family services shall prepare an acknowledgment of paternity affidavit that includes in boldface type at the top of the affidavit the rights and responsibilities of and the due process safeguards afforded to a person who acknowledges that he is the natural father of a child, including that if an alleged father acknowledges a parent and child relationship he assumes the parental duty of suppo...

...A party to a child support order issued in accordance with section 3119.30 of the Revised Code shall notify any physician, clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse practitioner, hospital, or other provider of medical services that provides medical services to the child who is the subject of the child support order of the number of any health insurance or health care policy, contract, or plan that covers the child i...

...Except as otherwise provided in this section and unless the property involved is required to be disposed of pursuant to another section of the Revised Code, property that is unclaimed for ninety days or more shall be sold by the chief of police of the municipal corporation, marshal of the village, or licensed auctioneer at public auction, after notice of the sale has been provided by publication once a week for...

...There is hereby created an Ohio police and fire pension fund for the purpose of providing disability benefits and pensions to members of the fund and their surviving spouses, children, and dependent parents.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Campaign committee" means a candidate or a combination of two or more persons authorized by a candidate to receive contributions and in-kind contributions and make expenditures on behalf of the candidate. (2) "Candidate" means an individual who has been nominated pursuant to section 742.04 of the Revised Code for election to the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension...

...(A) The members of the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund shall be the trustees of the funds created by section 742.59 of the Revised Code. The board shall have full power to invest the funds. The board and other fiduciaries shall discharge their duties with respect to the funds solely in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries; for the exclusive purpose of providing benefits to par...

...The Ohio police and fire pension fund shall make no investments through or purchases from, or otherwise do any business with, any individual who is, or any partnership, association, or corporation that is owned or controlled by, a person who within the preceding three years was employed by, an officer of, or a board member of the fund, or in which a person who within the preceding three years was employed by, an offi...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, a fiduciary shall not cause the Ohio police and fire pension fund to engage in a transaction, if the fiduciary knows or should know that such transaction constitutes a direct or indirect: (1) Sale or exchange, or leasing, of any property between the fund and a party in interest; (2) Lending of money or other extension of credit between the fund and a party in ...

...(A) If the conditions described in division (A) of section 742.211 of the Revised Code are met and a person who is a member or former member of the Ohio police and fire pension fund but not a current contributor and who is not receiving a pension or benefit from the fund elects to receive credit under the Cincinnati retirement system for service for which the person contributed to the fund or purchased or obtained as...

... pension fund who, during the period of employment as a member of a police or fire department, is removed from active pay status due to pregnancy or a medical disability leave not exceeding one year for each such leave and who is not a participant in the deferred retirement option plan established under section 742.43 of the Revised Code shall, in computing years of active service in such department under division (C...

...(A) The employer's accrued liability, as determined pursuant to former section 742.29 of the Revised Code, shall be paid to the Ohio police and fire pension fund. Payments shall be credited to the police officers' pension reserve fund, or to the firefighters' pension reserve fund, in accordance with the relief and pension fund from which the liability for such payment arises, until such time as the employer's a...

...On or before the first day of August in 1982 and on or before the first day of August in each year thereafter, the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund shall certify to the treasurer of state the amount required to be paid in the preceding fiscal year to persons first receiving a benefit or allowance prior to July 1, 1981, under divisions (D), (E), (F), and (H)(2), (3), and (4) of section 742.37...

...In lieu of an employer contribution to pay part of the cost of the benefits provided under section 742.52 of the Revised Code, the treasurer of state shall make a payment to the Ohio police and fire pension fund in August 1981 and each August thereafter from appropriations made for the purpose by the general assembly.

...A member of the fund who is in the active service of a police or fire department, is not receiving a pension or benefit payment from the Ohio police and fire pension fund, and is not a participant in the deferred retirement option plan established under section 742.43 of the Revised Code shall, in computing years of active service in such department under division (C) of section 742.37 or section 742.39 of the Revise...

...Except for service credit transferred under section 742.214 of the Revised Code, a member of the fund who is in the active service of a police or fire department, is not receiving a pension or benefit payment from the Ohio police and fire pension fund, and is not a participant in the deferred retirement option plan established under section 742.43 of the Revised Code shall, in computing years of active service in suc...

...A member of the fund who is in the active service of a police or fire department, is not receiving a pension or benefit payment from the Ohio police and fire pension fund, and is not a participant in the deferred retirement option plan established under section 742.43 of the Revised Code shall, in computing years of active service in such department under division (C) of section 742.37 or section 742.39 of the Revise...

...Not later than March 1, 2000, and each first day of March thereafter, the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund shall make and submit a report for the preceding fiscal year of the disability retirement experience of each employer. The report shall specify the total number of disability applications submitted, the status of each application as of the last day of the fiscal year, total applications...

...n service credit under this chapter for employment after the election's effective date. While the member is in the active service of a police or fire department, the member shall contribute to the Ohio police and fire pension fund in accordance with section 742.31 of the Revised Code and the employer shall contribute and report in accordance with either section 742.33 or 742.34 of the Revised Code. Neither the membe...

...(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any payment of accumulated contributions standing to a person's credit under this chapter and any other amount or amounts to be paid to a person who is a contributor under this chapter upon the person's withdrawal of contributions pursuant to this chapter shall be subject to any forfeiture ordered under division (A) or (B) of section 2929.192 of the Revis...

...Except as provided in sections 742.461, 742.462, 742.463, 742.464, 3105.171, 3105.65, and 3115.501 and Chapters 3119., 3121., 3123., and 3125. of the Revised Code, sums of money due or to become due to any individual from the Ohio police and fire pension fund are not liable to attachment, garnishment, the operation of bankruptcy or insolvency laws, levy, or seizure under any legal or equitable process or any other pr...

...Any person who is receiving, or becomes eligible to receive, a pension, or other benefit, or any increase under Chapter 742. of the Revised Code, may, at any time, waive the person's rights thereto, or to a portion thereof, by filing a written notice of waiver with the person from the Ohio police and fire pension fund. Such waiver shall remain in effect until the first day of the month following the person's death, ...

...(A) As used in this section, "park police officer" means a park police officer appointed or employed pursuant to the Cincinnati municipal code. (B) With approval of the Cincinnati retirement system, a member of the retirement system who is a full-time regular member of the Cincinnati police department and, prior to being reclassified as a member of the police department, served as a full-time park police officer may...

...(A) As used in this section, "fire department employer" means a fire department that employs a firefighter. (B) A full-time firefighter who, on November 8, 1990, is a member of the public employees retirement system, in the employ of a fire department employer, and in a position in which the firefighter is required to satisfactorily complete or have satisfactorily completed a firefighter training course approved und...

...had the member continued police or fire employment during the period of military service. The board of trustees may adopt rules setting the manner in which the employer contribution is calculated and paid.

...Any municipal corporation which had only volunteer firemen prior to January 1, 1967, may operate and maintain a volunteer firemen's relief and pension fund, and levy a tax of up to three-tenths of one mill upon all the real and personal property listed for taxation in the municipal corporation for the purpose of providing funds for the payment of benefits and pensions from the municipal corporation's volunteer fireme...

...The legislative authority of each municipal corporation, annually, may levy and collect a tax not to exceed one mill on each dollar of the taxable property of the municipal corporation and pay the amount to a private corporation or association which maintains and furnishes a free public hospital for the benefit of the inhabitants of the municipal corporation, or not free except to such inhabitants as, in the opinion ...

...(A) The board of hospital commissioners shall have the entire management and control of a hospital erected under sections 749.02 to 749.14 of the Revised Code, when completed and ready for use, and shall assume and continue the operation of the hospital. Subject to the ordinances of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, the board shall establish rules for the hospital's government, and the admission...