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...(A) In a guardianship or protective proceeding in this state, a probate court of this state may request the appropriate court of another state to do any of the following: (1) Hold an evidentiary hearing; (2) Order a person in that state to produce evidence or give testimony pursuant to the procedures of that state; (3) Order that an evaluation or assessment be made of the respondent; (4) Order any appropriat...

...(A) In a guardianship proceeding or protective proceeding, in addition to other procedures that may be available, the testimony of a witness who is located in another state may be offered by deposition or other means allowable in this state for testimony taken in another state. The probate court on the court's own motion may order that the testimony of a witness be taken in another state and may prescribe the m...

...(A) A probate court of this state has jurisdiction to appoint a guardian or issue a protective order for a respondent if any of the following applies: (1) This state is the respondent's home state. (2) On the date that the application is filed, this state is a significant-connection state, and either of the following applies: (a) The respondent does not have a home state, or a court of the respondent's home ...

...(A) A probate court of this state lacking jurisdiction under section 2112.21 of the Revised Code has special jurisdiction to do any of the following: (1) Appoint a guardian in an emergency for a respondent who is physically present in this state; (2) Issue a protective order in an emergency with respect to the adult or to the real or tangible personal property located in this state; (3) Appoint a guardian fo...

...Except as otherwise provided in section 2112.22 of the Revised Code, a probate court that has appointed a guardian or issued a protective order consistent with this chapter has exclusive and continuing jurisdiction over the proceeding until it is terminated by the probate court or the appointment or order expires by the appointment's or order's own terms.

...(A) A probate court of this state having jurisdiction under section 2112.21 of the Revised Code to appoint a guardian or issue a protective order may decline to exercise the court's jurisdiction if the probate court determines at any time that a court of another state is a more appropriate forum. (B) If a probate court of this state declines to exercise the court's jurisdiction under division (A) of this secti...

...(A) If at any time a probate court of this state determines that the probate court has acquired jurisdiction to appoint a guardian or issue a protective order because of unjustifiable conduct, the probate court may do any of the following: (1) Decline to exercise jurisdiction; (2) Exercise jurisdiction for the limited purpose of fashioning an appropriate remedy to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of th...

...If an application for the appointment of a guardian or issuance of a protective order is brought in this state and this state was not the respondent's home state on the date that the application was filed, in addition to complying with the notice requirements of this state, the applicant shall give notice of the application to those persons who would be entitled to notice of the application if a proceeding were...

...Except for an application for the appointment of a guardian in an emergency or issuance of a protective order in an emergency, if an application for the appointment of a guardian or issuance of a protective order is filed in this state and in another state and neither application has been dismissed or withdrawn, the following rules apply: (A) If the probate court in this state has jurisdiction under section 2...

...(A) A guardian appointed in this state may petition the probate court to transfer the guardianship to another state. (B) Notice of a petition under division (A) of this section must be given by the guardian to the persons that would be entitled to notice of an application in this state for the appointment of a guardian. (C) On the probate court's own motion or on request of the guardian, ward, protected pers...

...(A) To confirm transfer of a guardianship transferred to this state under provisions similar to section 2112.31 of the Revised Code, the guardian shall petition the probate court in this state to accept the guardianship of the person, guardianship of the estate, or both. The petition must include a certified copy of the other state's provisional order of transfer. (B) Notice of a petition under division (A) o...

...If a guardian has been appointed in another state and an application for the appointment of a guardian of the person is not pending in this state, the guardian appointed in the other state, after giving notice to the appointing court of an intent to register, may register the guardianship order in this state by filing as a foreign judgment in a probate court, in any appropriate county of this state, certified c...

...If a guardian of the estate has been appointed in another state and an application for the appointment of a guardian of the estate is not pending in this state, the guardian of the estate appointed in the other state, after giving notice to the appointing court of an intent to register, may register a protective order or guardianship in this state by filing as a foreign judgment in a probate court of this state...

...(A) Upon the registration of a guardianship or protective order from another state, the guardian may exercise in this state all powers authorized in the order of appointment except as prohibited under the laws of this state, including maintaining actions and proceedings in this state and, if the guardian is not a resident of this state, subject to any conditions imposed upon nonresident parties. (B) A probate...

...Upon the death of a resident of this state who dies intestate, letters of administration of the decedent's estate shall be granted by the probate court of the county in which the decedent was a resident at the time of death. If the will of any person is admitted to probate in this state, letters testamentary or of administration shall be granted by the probate court in which the will was admitted to probate.

...(A) Subject to division (I) of this section, an estate may be released from administration under division (B) of this section if either of the following applies: (1) The value of the assets of the estate is thirty-five thousand dollars or less. (2) The value of the assets of the estate is one hundred thousand dollars or less and either of the following applies: (a) The decedent devised and bequeathed in a val...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Financial institution" has the same meaning as in section 5725.01 of the Revised Code. "Financial institution" also includes a credit union and a fiduciary that is not a trust company but that does trust business. (2) "Funeral and burial expenses" means whichever of the following applies: (a) The funeral and burial expenses of the decedent that are included in the bill of a funera...

...Any person who is eligible to be appointed as a personal representative of an estate under the law of this state or named as executor in a will may file an application with the probate court in the county in which the decedent resided seeking the release of the decedent's medical records and medical billing records for use in evaluating a potential wrongful death, personal injury, or survivorship action on behalf of...

...(A) Any employer, including the state or a political subdivision, at any time after the death of an employee, may pay all wages or personal earnings due to the deceased employee to the following, preference being given in the order named, without requiring letters testamentary or letters of administration to be issued upon the estate of the deceased employee, and without requiring an Ohio estate tax release if ...

...(A) The administrator of the medicaid estate recovery program established pursuant to section 5162.21 of the Revised Code may present an affidavit to a financial institution requesting that the financial institution release account proceeds to recover the cost of services correctly provided to a medicaid recipient who is subject to the medicaid estate recovery program. The affidavit shall include all of the fol...

...When a will is approved and allowed, the probate court shall issue letters testamentary to the executor named in the will or to the executor nominated by holders of a power as described in section 2107.65 of the Revised Code, or to the executor named in the will and to a coexecutor nominated by holders of that power, if the executor or coexecutor is suitable, competent, accepts the appointment, and gives bond i...

...(A) Administration of the estate of an intestate shall be granted to persons mentioned in this division, in the following order: (1) To the surviving spouse of the deceased, if resident of the state; (2) To one of the next of kin of the deceased, resident of the state. (B) If the persons entitled to administer the estate under division (A) of this section fail to take or renounce administration voluntaril...

...Before being appointed executor or administrator, every person shall make and file an application that shall contain the names of the surviving spouse and all the next of kin of the deceased known to the applicant, their addresses of usual residence if known, a statement in general terms of what the estate consists and its probable value, and a statement of any indebtedness the deceased had against the applica...

...Upon the filing of an application for appointment as executor or administrator of the estate of a deceased alien with surviving heirs residing in a foreign country, or as soon thereafter during the administration of the estate as the probate court ascertains that the deceased was an alien, the court shall cause notice of the proceedings to be forwarded by registered mail to the nearest consular representative of the ...

...If a person named as executor in the will of a decedent, or nominated as an executor by holders of a power as described in section 2107.65 of the Revised Code, refuses to accept the trust, or, if after being served notice for that purpose, neglects to appear and accept, or if the person named or nominated as executor neglects for twenty days after the probate of the will to give any required bond, the probate c...

...If the director of job and family services or the director of children and youth enters into an agreement or contracts with, or issues a grant to, a religious organization under section 5101.214 of the Revised Code, the religious organization shall comply with section 104 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity and Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193).

...ore written operational agreements with boards of county commissioners to do one or more of the following regarding family services duties: (A) Provide for the directors to amend or rescind a rule the directors previously adopted; (B) Provide for the directors to modify procedures or establish alternative procedures to accommodate special circumstances in a county; (C) Provide for the directors and board to ...

...The department of job and family services and the department of children and youth, as applicable, may establish performance and other administrative standards for the administration and outcomes of family services duties and determine at intervals the departments decide the degree to which a county family services agency complies with a performance or other administrative standard. The departments may use statistica...

...(A) Except as provided by division (C) of this section, if the department of job and family services or the department of children and youth determines that a county family services agency has failed to comply with a performance or other administrative standard established under section 5101.22 of the Revised Code or by federal law for the administration or outcome of a family services duty, the department shall requ...

...The director of job and family services or the director of children and youth may adopt rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code to implement sections 5101.22 to 5101.222 of the Revised Code. If the director adopts the rules, the director shall adopt the rules as if they were internal management rules.

...Subject to the availability of funds, the department of job and family services and the department of children and youth may provide annual financial, administrative, or other incentive awards to county family services agencies and local areas as defined in section 6301.01 of the Revised Code. A county family services agency or local area may spend an incentive awarded under this section only for the purpose for whic...

...the county treasury appropriated by the board of county commissioners for the duty; (b) Withhold funds allocated or reimbursements due to the responsible county grantee for the duty and spend the funds for the duty. (6) Request that the attorney general bring mandamus proceedings to compel the responsible county grantee to take or cease the action that causes division (B)(1), (2), (3), or (4) of this section to...

... (H) The governor may decertify a local board for any of the following reasons in accordance with subsection (c)(3) of section 107 of the "Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act," 29 U.S.C. 3122: (1) Fraud or abuse; (2) Failure to carry out the requirements of the federal "Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act," 29 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.; (3) Failure to meet local performance accountability measures for the loca...

...The department of job and family services or the director of children and youth may certify a claim to the attorney general under section 131.02 of the Revised Code for the attorney general to take action under that section against a responsible county grantee or responsible entity to recover any funds that the department determines the responsible county grantee or responsible entity owes the department for actions ...

...The director of job and family services and the director of children and youth may adopt rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code establishing reporting requirements for family services duties and workforce development activities. If the directors adopt the rules, the directors shall adopt the rules as if they were internal management rules and, before adopting the rules, give the public an opportu...

...(A) If the department of job and family services or the department of children and youth determines that a grant awarded to a county grantee in a grant agreement entered into under section 5101.21 of the Revised Code, an allocation, advance, or reimbursement the department makes to a county family services agency, or a cash draw a county family services agency makes exceeds the allowable amount for the grant, allocat...

...The department of job and family services, and the department of children and youth in consultation with county representatives, shall develop annual training goals and model training curriculum for employees of county family services agencies and identify a variety of state funded training opportunities to meet the proposed goals.

...berculosis control unit designated by a board of county commissioners under section 339.72 of the Revised Code or the district tuberculosis control unit designated pursuant to an agreement entered into by two or more boards of community commissioners under that section.

...(A) Except as permitted by this section, section 5101.273, 5101.28, or 5101.29 of the Revised Code, or rules adopted under section 5101.30 of the Revised Code, or when required by federal law, no person or government entity shall knowingly solicit, disclose, receive, use, permit the use of, or participate in the use of any information regarding a public assistance recipient for any purpose not directly connected with...

...(A) For the purposes of section 5101.27 of the Revised Code, an authorization shall be made on a form that uses language understandable to the average person and contains all of the following: (1) A description of the information to be used or disclosed that identifies the information in a specific and meaningful fashion; (2) The name or other specific identification of the person or class of persons authorized ...

...The department of job and family services or the department of children and youth shall enter into any necessary agreements with the United States department of health and human services and neighboring states to join and participate as an active member in the public assistance reporting information system. The department may disclose information regarding a public assistance recipient to the extent necessary to part...

...(A)(1) On request of the department of job and family services, the department of children and youth, or a county agency, a law enforcement agency shall provide information regarding public assistance recipients to enable the department of job and family services, department of children and youth, or county agency to determine, for eligibility purposes, whether a recipient or a member of a recipient's assistance grou...

...When contained in a record held by the department of job and family services, the department of children and youth, or a county agency, the following are not public records for purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code: (A) Names and other identifying information regarding children enrolled in or attending a child care center or home subject to licensure or registration under Chapter 5104. of the Revised Code...

...(A) The director of job and family services and the director of children and youth shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code implementing sections 5101.26 to 5101.30 of the Revised Code and governing the custody, use, disclosure, and preservation of the information generated or received by the department of job and family services, the department of children and youth, county agencies, oth...

...As used in sections 5101.311 to 5101.318 of the Revised Code: (A) "Poverty line" means the official poverty line established by the director of the United States office of management and budget and as revised by the secretary of health and human services in accordance with section 673(2) of the "Community Services Block Grant Act," 95 Stat. 1609, 42 U.S.C.A. 9902. (B) "Low-income person" means a person whose adj...

...The director of job and family services shall employ and fix the compensation of professional and technical unclassified personnel as necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 5101.311 to 5101.317 of the Revised Code.

...The department of job and family services shall: (A) Administer all federal funds appropriated to the state from the "Community Services Block Grant Act," 95 Stat. 511, 42 U.S.C.A. 9901, and comply with requirements imposed by that act in its application for, and administration of, the funds; (B) Designate community action agencies to receive community services block grant funds; (C)(1) Subject to division (C)(...

...(A) Except as permitted by this section, or when required by federal law, no person or government entity shall solicit, release, disclose, receive, use, or knowingly permit or participate in the use of any information regarding an individual receiving assistance pursuant to a department of job and family services program under sections 5101.311 to 5101.318 of the Revised Code for any purpose not directly related to t...

...uch plan and budget. (3) Composes its board of directors in compliance with the "Community Services Block Grant Act," 42 U.S.C. 9910, except that the board shall consist of not less than fifteen nor more than thirty-three members; (4) Complies with the prohibitions against discrimination and political activity, as provided in the "Community Services Block Grant Act"; (5) Complies with fiscal and program require...

...The board of directors of a community action agency shall: (A) Select, appoint, and may remove the executive director of the community action agency; (B) Approve contracts, annual program budgets, and policies of the community action agency; (C) Advise the elected officials of any political subdivision located within its service area, and state and federal elected officials who represent its service area, of t...

... section 6119.09 of the Revised Code, a board of trustees of a regional water and sewer district may establish discounted rentals or charges or may establish another mechanism for providing a reduction in rentals or charges. If the board does so, the board shall establish eligibility requirements for such discounted or reduced rentals or charges, including a requirement that a person be eligible for the homestead exe...

...he Revised Code has been prepared, the board of trustees of the regional water and sewer district shall give at least ten days' notice in one newspaper of general circulation in such area or give notice as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, stating that such plans have been prepared and are filed in the office of the secretary of the board for examination and inspection by the parties interested. A...

...ection 6119.19 of the Revised Code, the board of trustees of the regional water and sewer district may amend such plan by providing for such intercepting sewers, without regard to sewer districts, as are necessary to furnish an additional outlet for the system so adopted, and to provide for the construction thereof as provided in sections 6119.01 to 6119.42, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and apportion the cost and ...

...Code has been adopted and approved, the board of trustees of the regional water and sewer district shall designate such portions of the work as are required for immediate use. The designation shall be by districts or areas and shall show what districts, areas, or parts thereof are to be improved. The board may order its officers to make an estimate of the cost and expense of constructing the work or such portions the...

...Revised Code shall be certified to the board of elections for the county not less than ninety days before the general election in any year and said board shall submit the proposal to the electors of the county at the succeeding November election in accordance with section 5705.25 of the Revised Code. If the per cent required for approval of a levy as set forth in section 5705.26 of the Revised Code vote in fav...

...31 and 6119.32 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners may issue securities, as defined in section 133.01 of the Revised Code, including anticipatory securities, for the purpose of paying the cost of the preparation of the data needed or determined to be necessary or appropriate in order to plan for the proper supply, purification, filtration, and distribution of water, the proper collection, treatmen...

...d in the office of the secretary of the board of trustees of the regional water and sewer district and shall be open to the inspection of all persons with interests therein. After such plans, specifications, profiles, and estimate of cost of the project have been filed in the office of the secretary, the board may declare the necessity of constructing such project by the passage of a resolution. Such resolution shal...

... such project has been ascertained, the board of trustees of the regional water and sewer district shall by resolution assess, in the manner provided in the resolution of necessity adopted under section 6119.46 of the Revised Code, upon the lots and lands enumerated in the estimated assessments adopted under section 6119.51 of the Revised Code, the total cost of the project or such lesser portion thereof as is to be ...

...fect, whether in the proceedings of the board of trustees or of any officer of the district, or in the plans or estimates, or otherwise, the assessment has not been properly made upon any lot or parcel of land sought to be charged, the court may nevertheless, on satisfactory proof that expense has been incurred which is a proper charge against such lot or parcel of land in question, render judgment for the amount pro...

...ther written document setting forth the board's participation specifies that all wages paid to laborers and mechanics employed on the projects shall be paid at the prevailing rates of wages of laborers and mechanics for the class of work called for by the project, which wages shall be determined in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 4115. of the Revised Code for determination of prevailing wage rates, provid...

... development authority, the controlling board may, from appropriations available to the authority, provide funds for surveys or studies by the authority of any proposed development project subject to repayment by the authority from funds available to it, within the time fixed by the board. Funds to be repaid shall be charged by the authority to the appropriate development project and the amount thereof shall be a cos...

...Boards of county commissioners in their respective counties, or in co-operation with any conservancy district which includes all or part of the lands of the county, or in co-operation with the proper authorities of the state or the proper authorities of the United States, may formulate, create, and construct a complete or co-ordinating system of water conservation and flood control, subject to the approval of the pro...

...ement, using methods and means that the board of county commissioners determines will adequately inform those attending the view about the proposed improvement's location and the drainage issues intended to be addressed by the proposed improvement. (B) Upon a request made by a commissioner or an owner in the area to be benefited by the proposed improvement, the board of county commissioners shall recess the view a...

...etition for a proposed improvement, the board of county commissioners shall do both of the following: (1) Hear the preliminary report of the county engineer required under section 6131.09 of the Revised Code; (2) Hear any evidence offered by any owner for or against the granting of the proposed improvement or for or against the granting of any laterals, branches, spurs, or change of route, course, termini, or man...

...5 of the Revised Code, the clerk of the board of county commissioners shall promptly prepare a transcript of the orders made by the board of county commissioners, and shall file such transcript with the clerk of the court of common pleas, together with the permanent files of records of the proceedings maintained by the board of county commissioners and county engineer as required under section 6131.061 of the Revised...

...abulate the bids and report them to the board of county commissioners with his recommendation of which bid, or combination of bids, in all respects is the best. No bid shall be accepted after the time designated for receiving bids. The board may accept any combination of bids of different bidders for different parts of the work or for furnishing different materials that they find will be more economical or advantageo...

...roval of it by the county engineer, the board of county commissioners shall order the county auditor to reduce pro rata the assessments confirmed by it by the difference between the estimated cost of the construction and the final cost as certified by the county engineer. The assessments so reduced, including the cost of location, engineering, compensation, damages, and contingency and the assessment for maintenance ...

... appropriated, may by resolution of the board of county commissioners be transferred to the general drainage improvement fund. (C) At any time after assessments collected for a drainage improvement exceed the amount allocated to the board for engineering expenses, the board of county commissioners may by resolution transfer from the drainage improvement fund to the general revenue fund of the county an amount equa...

...64, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the board of education of a school district interested in land granted by congress for the support of public schools, unless such land has been permanently leased, and of a school district owning or holding other land for school purposes, when an assessment is made upon said land under such sections, shall pay for such assessment out of the contingent fund of the school district. ...

... the construction with the clerk of the board of county commissioners of the county in which the construction or improvement is to be constructed. (B) The clerk shall immediately refer the plans to the county engineer who shall review the proposed location, both horizontal and vertical, of the proposed structures and the effect of the proposed improvements on any other improvements and on any highways in the area. ...

...roceeding shall be conducted by a joint board of county commissioners consisting of the members of the boards of county commissioners of the several counties in which land may be benefited or damaged by the proposed improvement. (B) The petition for a joint county drainage improvement shall be filed with the clerk of the board of county commissioners of the lead county.

...rovement. (2) The clerk of the joint board shall present bills for payment to the fiscal agents in the same manner as a request for payment would be made with respect to a single county drainage improvement. (3) The fiscal agents shall process and pay each bill for the joint board of county commissioners presented. (B) The auditor of the lead county shall certify to the auditor of the other counties a schedule...

...Where the board of county commissioners has been notified that a petition for the improvement of a ditch or drain has been regularly filed with the clerk of the board of county commissioners thereof, then said board shall proceed as in single county ditches, if lands affected by said improvement lie wholly in one county, and shall proceed as in joint county ditches if two or more counties are affected, and shall orde...

...2 of the Revised Code, the clerk of the board of county commissioners of the county in which the petition was filed shall notify the joint board of county commissioners of the receipt thereof as in the case of the filing of a petition and bond as provided in section 6135.02 of the Revised Code. The clerk shall send a copy of the report to all of the appropriate officials of each state. He shall proceed in a like mann...

...The joint board of county commissioners, on assembling for the meeting set by the clerk of the board of county commissioners under section 6135.14 of the Revised Code, shall be governed by like rules as provided by law for the first meeting thereof. They may call to their assistance the engineers who surveyed and planned the proposed improvement.