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...n, any reconstruction, enlargement, alteration, repair, remodeling, renovation, or painting of a public improvement, the total overall project cost of which is fairly estimated to be more than the following amounts and performed by other than full-time employees who have completed their probationary period in the classified civil service of a public authority: (a) Thirty-eight thousand dollars, beginning on Septembe...

...No member of a public board, commission, or other public authority authorized to contract for or construct with its own forces a public improvement, shall vote for the award of any contract for the construction of such improvement, or vote for the disbursement of any funds on account of the construction of such public improvement, unless such public authority has first had the director of commerce determine the preva...

...ity" shall not mean any municipal corporation that has adopted a charter under sections three and seven of article XVIII of the Ohio Constitution, unless the specific contract for a public improvement includes state funds appropriated for the purposes of that public improvement. (B) "Construction" means all of the following: (1) Any new construction of any public improvement performed by other than full-time e...

...(A) Public employees have the right to: (1) Form, join, assist, or participate in, or refrain from forming, joining, assisting, or participating in, except as otherwise provided in Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code, any employee organization of their own choosing; (2) Engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid and protection; (3) Representation by an empl...

...(A) Whenever a strike by public employees who are prohibited from striking under division (D)(1) of section 4117.14 of the Revised Code, a strike by other public employees during the pendency of the settlement procedures set forth in section 4117.14 of the Revised Code, or a strike during the term or extended term of a collective bargaining agreement occurs, the public employer may seek an injunction against the stri...

... carried on, or where any process or operation, directly or indirectly related to any industry, trade, or business, is carried on and where any person is directly or indirectly employed by another for direct or indirect gain or profit, but does not include any place where persons are employed in private domestic service or agricultural pursuits which do not involve the use of mechanical power. (2) "Employment" means...

...slative authority of any municipal corporation or any board of trustees or officer of any municipal corporation of any power or jurisdiction over or relative to any place of employment, provided that whenever the bureau of workers' compensation, by an order, fixes a standard of safety or any hygienic condition for employments or places of employment, the order shall, upon the filing by the bureau of a copy thereof wi...

...(A) The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for the health care partnership program administered by the bureau of workers' compensation to provide medical, surgical, nursing, drug, hospital, and rehabilitation services and supplies to an employee for an injury or o...

...(A) As used in sections 4121.61 to 4121.69 of the Revised Code, "self-insuring employer" has the same meaning as in section 4123.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt rules, take measures, and make expenditures as it deems necessary to aid claimants who have sustained compensable inju...

...(A) The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt rules: (1) For the encouragement of reemployment of claimants who have successfully completed prescribed rehabilitation programs by payment from the surplus fund established by section 4123.34 of the Revised Code to employers who employ or re-employ the claimants. The per...

...blish rules or policies for the administration of the respective compensation plans. This division does not apply to employees for whom the state employment relations board establishes appropriate bargaining units pursuant to section 4117.06 of the Revised Code. (B) The administrator may employ the services and resources of any public entity or private person, business, or association in fulfilling the duties...

...(A) Every employer shall keep records of, and furnish to the bureau of workers' compensation upon request, all information required by the administrator of workers' compensation to carry out this chapter. (B) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, every private employer employing one or more employees regularly in the same business, or in or about the same establishment, shall submit a payrol...

...(A) An adjudicating committee appointed by the administrator of workers' compensation to hear any matter specified in divisions (B)(1) to (7) of this section shall hear the matter within sixty days of the date on which an employer files the request, protest, or petition. An employer desiring to file a request, protest, or petition regarding any matter specified in divisions (B)(1) to (7) of this section shall file th...

...Money contributed by public employers constitutes the "public fund" and the money contributed by private employers constitutes the "private fund." Each such fund shall be collected, distributed, and its solvency maintained without regard to or reliance upon the other. Whenever in this chapter reference is made to the state insurance fund, the reference is to such two separate funds but such two separate funds and the...

...(A) The administrator of workers' compensation may do all of the following: (1) Utilize direct deposit of funds by electronic transfer for all disbursements the administrator is authorized to pay under this chapter and Chapters 4121., 4127., and 4131. of the Revised Code; (2) Require any payee to provide a written authorization designating a financial institution and an account number to which a payment made...

...r shall revoke the organization's registration pursuant to section 4125.06 or 4133.09 of the Revised Code, as applicable. (5) An employer may appeal a late fee penalty or additional penalty to an adjudicating committee pursuant to section 4123.291 of the Revised Code. (6) If the employer files an appropriate payroll report within the time provided by law, the employer shall not be in default and division (D)(2) o...

...(A) The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt rules establishing a prospective payment system, which shall include all of the following: (1) A requirement that upon an initial application for coverage, a private employer shall file with the application an estimate of the employer's payroll for the period the administ...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, a payment required under this chapter or Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code, including a payment due for purposes of continuing coverage, is due on the date specified in those chapters, unless otherwise provided in a rule adopted by the administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of direct...

...(A) The employers providing work-based learning program is created. As soon as practicable after the effective date of this section, the administrator of workers' compensation, subject to the approval of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt a rule that prohibits the administrator from charging any amount with respect to a claim for compensation or benefits under this chapter or Chapt...

...Every public employer, except for boards of county hospital trustees that are self-insurers under section 4123.35 of the Revised Code, shall contribute to the public insurance fund the amount of money determined by the administrator of workers' compensation, and the manner of determining contributions and the classifications of employers is as provided in sections 4123.39 to 4123.41 and 4123.48 of the Revised Code.

...(A) For all injuries and disabilities occurring before January 1, 1987, the administrator of workers' compensation, for the purpose of carrying out sections 4123.412 to 4123.418 of the Revised Code and with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, may levy an assessment against all employers at a rate not to exceed ten cents per one hundred dollars of payroll. If the administr...

...The assessment rate established pursuant to section 4123.411 of the Revised Code, subject to the limits set forth in that section, shall be adequate to provide the amounts estimated as necessary by the administrator of workers' compensation to carry out the provisions of sections 4123.412 to 4123.418 of the Revised Code. For all injuries and disabilities occurring before January 1, 1987, the administrator, for the p...

...or managing agent of each private corporation, including any public service corporation mentioned in section 4123.01 of the Revised Code or publicly owned utility, shall cause the firm or corporation to comply with section 4123.35 of the Revised Code and, for self-insuring employers, to comply with the assessment based upon paid compensation provisions of this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code. No p...

...eal, within fourteen days after the expiration of the period in which an appeal of the order of the staff hearing officer may be filed as provided in division (D) of this section, the commission or the designated staff hearing officer shall issue an order to that effect and notify the parties and their respective representatives in writing of that order. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter and Chapters 412...

...fter June 1, 1932, and prior to the expiration of the applicable period but in respect to which no award has been granted or denied during the applicable period. (G) The commission may, by general rules, provide for the destruction of files of cases in which no further action may be taken. (H) The commission and administrator of workers' compensation each may, by general rules, provide for the retention and des...