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...The board of health of a city or general health district shall not close public highways or prohibit travel thereon, interfere with public officers not afflicted with or directly exposed to a contagious or infectious disease, in the discharge of their official duties, or establish a quarantine of one municipal corporation or township against another municipal corporation or township, as such, without permission first...

...(A) Each physician or other person called to attend a person having cholera, plague, yellow fever, typhus fever, diphtheria, typhoid fever, or any other disease dangerous to the public health, or required by the department of health to be reported, shall report to the health commissioner within whose jurisdiction the sick person is found the name, age, sex, and color of the patient, and the house and place in which t...

...When complaint is made or a reasonable belief exists that an infectious or contagious disease prevails in a house or other locality which has not been reported as provided in section 3707.06 of the Revised Code, the board of health of a city or general health district shall cause such house or locality to be inspected by its health commissioner, and on discovering that such disease exists, the board may send the pers...

...When a person known to have been exposed to a communicable disease declared quarantinable by the board of health of a city or general health district or the department of health is reported within its jurisdiction, the board shall at once restrict such person to the person's place of residence or other suitable place, prohibit entrance to or exit from such place without the board's written permission in such manner a...

...The board of health of a city or general health district may employ as many persons as are necessary to execute its orders and properly guard any house or place containing any person affected with or exposed to a communicable disease declared quarantinable by the board or the department of health. The persons employed shall be sworn in as quarantine guards, shall have police powers, and may use all necessary means to...

...When a person affected with yellow fever, typhus fever, or diphtheria has recovered and is no longer liable to communicate the disease to others, or has died, the attending physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner shall furnish a certificate of the recovery or death to the board of health of the city or general health district. As soon thereafter as the board cons...

...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, may only issue a quarantine or isolation order under this chapter that applies to individuals who have been medically diagnosed with the disease that is the subject of the order or individuals who have come in direct contact with someone who has been medically diag...

...The board of health of a city or general health district may destroy any infected clothing, bedding, or other article that cannot be made safe by disinfection, and shall furnish to the owner of the articles a receipt, of which the board shall keep a complete and accurate copy, for articles so destroyed. The receipt shall show the number, character, condition, and estimated value of the articles destroyed. When a buil...

...The legislative authority of the municipal corporation, upon the presentation of the original receipt or written statement of the appraisers for articles or houses destroyed pursuant to section 3707.12 of the Revised Code, shall pay to the owner thereof, or other person authorized by him to receive such payment, the estimated value of such destroyed articles, or such sum as the legislative authority deems just compe...

...When a house or other place is quarantined because of contagious diseases, the board of health of the city or general health district shall provide, for all persons confined in such house or place, food, fuel, and all other necessaries of life, including medical attendance, medicine, and nurses when necessary. The expenses so incurred, except those for disinfection, quarantine, or other measures strictly for the prot...

...As used in this section, "alien" means an individual who is not a citizen of the United States. Any person that employs an alien who is not legally present in the United States and has a contagious or infectious disease contracted before or during employment shall pay to the municipal corporation, township, or county in which the alien is employed any expense caused by the contagious or infectious disease. An employ...

...No person isolated or quarantined for a communicable disease declared by the board of health of a city or general health district or the department of health to require isolation or quarantine shall attend any public, private, or parochial school or college, Sunday school, church, or any other public gathering, until released from isolation or quarantine by the board. All school principals, Sunday school superintende...

...When a person with a contagious disease, quarantined in a county by a city or general health district, has a legal settlement in a municipal corporation or township within the same county but other than that in which quarantined, or has a legal settlement in another county of the state, and such person is unable to pay the expenses of the service provided under section 3707.14 of the Revised Code, the city or general...

...The expenses for quarantining a county home or other county public institution shall be paid by the county when properly certified by the president and clerk of the board of health, or health commissioner where there is no board, of the city or general health district in which such institution is located.

...The body of a person who has died of a communicable disease declared by the department of health to require immediate disposal for the protection of others shall be buried or cremated within twenty-four hours after death. No public or church funeral shall be held in connection with the burial of such person, and the body shall not be taken into any church, chapel, or other public place. Only adult members of the imme...

...No person, who has a contagious or infectious disease, or who has been exposed to a contagious or infectious disease, may be sent or admitted to a prison; jail; workhouse; infirmary; children's home; state hospital or institution for persons who are blind, persons with mental illnesses, or persons with intellectual disabilities; school for the blind or deaf; or other state or county benevolent institution without fir...

...When cholera, yellow fever, diphtheria, scarlet fever, or other dangerous, contagious, or infectious disease appears in any state, county, or municipal benevolent or correctional institution, the superintendent or manager of the institution shall at once isolate the persons so affected and enforce sections 3707.01 to 3707.53 of the Revised Code, for the prevention of contagious diseases, and the rules and orders of t...

...The trustees or managers of any institution mentioned in section 3707.21 of the Revised Code may contract for the care, treatment, or detention of any persons affected with or exposed to any disease mentioned in such section with any corporation having a hospital or other proper place for the isolation or care of persons having or exposed to contagious disease, and may remove such persons to such hospital or place. I...

...When a quarantine is declared, all railroads, steamboats, or other common carriers, and the owners, consignees, or assignees of any railroad, steamboat, or other vehicle used for the transportation of passengers, baggage, or freight, shall submit to any rules or regulations imposed and any examination required by a board of health of a city or general health district or health commissioner. They shall submit to any e...

...No owner, consignee, assignee, or other person interested in any manner set forth in section 3707.23 of the Revised Code shall make an unfounded statement or declaration respecting the points under the examination provided by such section.

...Rules and regulations passed by a board of health of a city or general health district or health commissioner shall apply to all persons, goods, or effects arriving by railroad, steamboat, or other vehicle of transportation, after quarantine is declared.

...Semiannually, and more often, if in its judgment necessary, the board of health of a city or general health district shall inspect the sanitary condition of all schools and school buildings within its jurisdiction, and may disinfect any school building. When a dangerous communicable disease is unusually prevalent and verified positive cases of the disease have been documented in a specific school building, the board ...

...The board of health of a city or general health district may take measures, supply agents, and afford inducements and facilities for gratuitous vaccination, or may make reasonable charges for such vaccination. Where a city or general health district provides vaccinations using a vaccine provided by the Ohio department of health, the city or general health district shall pay fifty cents for each such vaccination whic...

...When expenses are incurred by a board of health under sections 3707.01 to 3707.53, inclusive, of the Revised Code, upon application and certificate from such board, the legislative authority of the municipal corporation shall pass the necessary appropriation ordinances to pay such expenses. The legislative authority may levy and set apart the necessary sum to pay such expenses and to carry such sections into effect.

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may purchase land within or without its boundaries and erect thereon suitable hospital buildings for the isolation, care, or treatment of persons having dangerous contagious disease, and provide for the maintenance thereof. The plans and specifications for such buildings shall be approved by the board of health of the city or general health district in which such h...

...ution plan with definitely determinable benefits. A member may choose to purchase in any one payment only part of the credit the member is eligible to purchase, subject to board rules. The public employees retirement board shall determine the amount and manner of payment. In the event of death or withdrawal from service, the payment into the employees' savings fund for such service credit shall be considered as...

...(A) If the conditions described in division (B) of section 145.2910 of the Revised Code are met and a person who is a member or former member of the public employees retirement system but not a current contributor and who is not receiving a pension or benefit from the public employees retirement system elects to receive credit under the Cincinnati retirement system for service for which the person contributed to the ...

... section, "workers' compensation" means benefits paid under Chapter 4121. or 4123. of the Revised Code. (B) A member of the public employees retirement system may purchase service credit under this section for any period during which the member was out of service with a public employer and receiving workers' compensation if the member returns to employment covered by this chapter. (C) For credit purchased under thi...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Retirement allowance" means any of the following as appropriate: (a) An allowance calculated under section 145.33, 145.332, or 145.335 of the Revised Code prior to any reduction for early retirement or election under section 145.46 of the Revised Code of a plan of payment and exclusive of any amounts payable under divisions (I)(2)(b) and (c) or (I)(3)(b) and (c) of section 145....

...(A) A member with disability coverage under this section who is determined by the public employees retirement board under section 145.35 of the Revised Code to qualify for a disability benefit shall receive a disability allowance under this section. The allowance shall be an annual amount equal to the greater of the following: (1) Forty-five per cent of the member's final average salary; (2) The member's total ...

...Designation of a beneficiary for the purposes of section 145.40 of the Revised Code or a return of contributions to the beneficiary of a member participating in a PERS defined contribution plan shall be made under this section. A beneficiary shall be designated in writing duly executed on a form provided by the public employees retirement board and signed by the member. A designation under this section is not valid u...

...se public employees contributing toward benefits as PERS public safety officers under section 145.332 of the Revised Code. (2) Each public employee contributing toward benefits as PERS law enforcement officers under section 145.332 of the Revised Code shall contribute to the employees' savings fund the rate determined under division (A)(1) of this section plus an additional percentage specified by the public em...

...iary waives in writing all claim to any benefits under this chapter prior to receipt of the first benefit, the waiver shall put in effect the succession of beneficiaries as provided in division (C) of section 145.43 of the Revised Code and shall be irrevocable.

...(A)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the following shall be subject to a forfeiture ordered under division (A) or (B) of section 2929.192 of the Revised Code: (a) The right of a member to receive any payment under a pension, annuity, allowance, or other type of benefit under this chapter, other than a payment of the accumulated contributions standing to the person's credit under this ch...

...(A) As used in this section, "child," "parent," and "surviving spouse" have the same meanings as in section 145.43 of the Revised Code. (B) Should a contributor die before commencement of a benefit under section 145.64 of the Revised Code, any deposits made under section 145.62 or the version of division (C) of section 145.23 of the Revised Code as it existed immediately prior to the effective date of this section ...

...ch participating member and under which benefits are based solely on the amounts that have accumulated in the account. The plans may include options under which a member participating in a plan may receive definitely determinable benefits. Each plan established under this section shall meet the requirements of sections 145.81 to 145.98 of the Revised Code and any rules adopted in accordance with section 145.80 of th...

...ontribution plan is married at the time benefits under the plan are to commence, unless the spouse consents to another plan of payment or the spouse's consent is waived, the member's benefit under the plan shall be paid in a lesser amount payable for life and one-half of that amount continuing after death to the surviving spouse for the life of the spouse. Consent is valid only if it is evidenced by a written docume...

...Claims for benefits payable under section 146.12 of the Revised Code shall be made as follows: (A) A surviving spouse shall file a claim under oath with the volunteer fire fighters' dependents fund board on a form provided by the board, setting forth the full name of the deceased volunteer fire fighter, the name of the fire department or company of which the decedent was a member, the name and address of the survivi...

...e of computing the contributions to and benefits from the retirement system of an employee; (2) Any sums deferred shall not be included in the computation of any federal and state income taxes withheld on behalf of an employee. Sums contributed to a Roth account feature or other feature to which nontax-deferred contributions are made shall be included in the computation of any federal and state income taxes withhel...

...'s cost, a description of the project's benefits, and such other information as the chief prescribes. The plan of reclamation may be prepared in consultation with a local soil and water conservation district. The chief may award the applicant a grant only after finding that the proposed reclamation work will establish vegetative cover and substantially reduce or eliminate erosion, sedimentation, landslides, pollutio...

...(A) Any township park district created pursuant to section 511.18 of the Revised Code that includes park land located outside the township in which the park district was established may be converted under the procedures provided in this section into a park district to be operated and maintained as provided for in this chapter, provided that there is no existing park district created under section 1545.04 of the Revis...

...t is established to provide health care benefits to the council members' officers and employees and their dependents may do either of the following: (1) Contract to administer and coordinate a self-funded health benefit program of a nonprofit corporation organized under Chapter 1702. of the Revised Code. A council operating a program under division (E)(1) of this section that does not act as an administrator as def...

...As used in sections 1701.01 to 1701.98 of the Revised Code, unless the context otherwise requires: (A) "Corporation" or "domestic corporation" means a corporation for profit formed under the laws of this state. (B) "Foreign corporation" means a corporation for profit formed under the laws of another state, and "foreign entity" means an entity formed under the laws of another state. (C) "State" means the United ...

...(A) The members, the directors, and the officers of a corporation shall not be personally liable for any obligation of the corporation. (B) In addition to any other liabilities imposed by law upon directors of a corporation and except as provided in division (D) of this section, directors shall be jointly and severally liable to the corporation as provided in division (C) of this section if they vote for or assent ...

...able with respect to the allowances and benefits, sound financing of the cost of benefits, the prudent investment of funds, and the improvement of the language, structure, and organization of the laws; (B) Make an annual report to the governor and to the general assembly covering its evaluation and recommendations with respect to the operations of the state retirement systems and their funds; (C) Study all changes ...

...(A) The board of directors of a special improvement district may develop and adopt one or more written plans for public improvements or public services that benefit all or any part of the district. Each plan shall set forth the specific public improvements or public services that are to be provided, identify the area in which they will be provided, and specify the method of assessment to be used. Each plan for public...

...When a presbytery, synod, conference, diocesan convention, or other representative body of a religious denomination in this state, or an assembly, synod, conference, convention, or other general ecclesiastical body of a religious denomination in the United States, desires to create a board of trustees for an endowment fund or other property of the denomination represented by that body and when, at a regular meeting o...

...(A) Every contract entered into by any professional solicitor with any charitable organization shall be in writing, shall clearly state the respective obligations of the professional solicitor and the charitable organization, and shall contain a clear statement of the benefit the charitable organization will receive, which may be stated as a fixed percentage of the gross revenue or a reasonable estimate of the percen...

...oposals shall include such coverage and benefits for such premiums, as shall take into account the functions provided by the alliance and the economies of scale, and have other terms and provisions as are approved by the superintendent, consistent with the purposes and standards set forth in section 1731.02 of the Revised Code. Any insurer that does not submit a proposal when required to do so by the superintendent h...

..."RxPCN"; (f) The subscriber's pharmacy benefits group number if different from the subscriber's medical group number, labeled as "RxGrp." (C) If the standardized identification card or the electronic technology issued or required to be used as provided in division (A)(1) of this section is also used for submission and routing of nonpharmacy claims, the designation "Rx" is required to be included as part of th...