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...(A) The state highway patrol retirement system shall disclose the following to the Ohio ethics commission: (1) Anything of value received by the system from an agent and anything of value given on behalf of the system by an agent; (2) The name of any employee of the system with authority over the investment of retirement system funds or any board member of the system who deals with an agent regarding amounts descri...

...(A) The state highway patrol retirement board shall, for the purposes of this section, designate an investment manager as an Ohio-qualified investment manager if the investment manager meets all of the following requirements: (1) The investment manager is subject to taxation under Chapter 5725., 5726., 5733., 5747., or 5751. of the Revised Code. (2) The investment manager meets one of the following requirements: (...

...(A) The state highway patrol retirement board may employ a secretary and secure the services of employees for the transaction of business of the state highway patrol retirement system. Effective ninety days after the effective date of this amendment, the board may not employ a state retirement system investment officer, as defined in section 1707.01 of the Revised Code, who does not hold a valid state retirement sys...

...Except as provided in Chapter 5505. of the Revised Code, no trustees and no employee of the state highway patrol retirement board shall have any interest, direct or indirect, in the gains or profits of any investment made by the board, nor as such, directly or indirectly, receive any pay or emolument for his services. No trustees or employee of the board, directly or indirectly, for himself or as an agent or partner...

...The boards and officers of the several taxing districts of the state in the issuance and sale of evidences of indebtedness of their respective taxing districts, may offer in writing at a fair market price, which price shall not be less than par and accrued interest, to the state highway patrol retirement board, prior to advertising the same for sale, all such issues as may not have been taken by the trustees of the s...

...There shall be kept available by the treasurer of state an amount not exceeding ten per cent of the total assets of the state highway patrol retirement system, on deposit in any bank in this state, organized under the laws of this state or of the United States, or with any trust company incorporated under the laws of this state. Such bank or trust company shall furnish adequate security for said deposit and the sum s...

...The treasurer of state shall be the treasurer of the state highway patrol retirement system and the custodian of its funds. All disbursements therefrom shall be made by him only upon instruments authorized by the state highway patrol retirement board and bearing signatures of the chairman, or vice-chairman in the absence of the chairman, and the secretary of the retirement system. Such instruments may bear the facsim...

...The state highway patrol retirement board shall appoint a committee to oversee the selection of an internal auditor. The committee shall select one or more persons for employment as an internal auditor. The board shall employ the person or persons selected by the committee. The committee shall consist of the following board members: one retirant member, one employee member, and one ex officio member. The committee s...

...Any action brought against the state highway patrol retirement system or the state highway patrol retirement board or its officers, employees, or board members in their official capacities shall be brought in the appropriate court in Franklin county, Ohio.

...(A) The state highway patrol retirement board shall have prepared annually by or under the supervision of an actuary an actuarial valuation of the pension assets, liabilities, and funding requirements of the state highway patrol retirement system as established pursuant to this chapter. The actuary shall complete the valuation in accordance with actuarial standards of practice promulgated by the actuarial standards b...

...The state highway patrol retirement board shall establish a period of not more than thirty years to amortize the state highway patrol retirement system's unfunded actuarial accrued pension liabilities. If in any year the period necessary to amortize the unfunded actuarial accrued pension liability exceeds thirty years, as determined by the annual actuarial valuation required by section 5505.12 of the Revised Code, th...

...If the Ohio retirement study council establishes a uniform format for any report the state highway patrol retirement board is required to submit to the council, the board shall submit the report in that format.

...Subject to such rules and regulations as the state highway patrol retirement board adopts, the board shall issue, upon written request of the member, a certificate certifying to the aggregate length of all the member's prior service as a state highway patrol employee.

...(A) A member of the state highway patrol retirement system shall contribute a certain percentage of the member's annual salary to the state highway patrol retirement fund. The percentage shall be not less than ten per cent of the member's annual salary but not more than fourteen per cent. The state highway patrol retirement board shall establish and may adjust the rate as it considers necessary to meet the amortizati...

...Except as otherwise provided in section 124.385 of the Revised Code, any member who is granted disability leave pursuant to a program sponsored by the state, whereby the member receives a percentage of his salary while on disability leave, shall not be required to make contributions for time off while on disability leave. Except as otherwise provided in section 124.385 of the Revised Code, the state, as sponsor of a...

...(A) As used in this section, "entry age normal actuarial cost method" means an actuarial cost method under which the actuarial present value of the projected benefits of each individual included in the valuation is allocated on a level basis over the earnings or service of the individual between the entry age and the assumed exit age, with the portion of the actuarial present value that is allocated to the valu...

...(A) As used in this section, "member" has the same meaning as in section 5505.01 of the Revised Code, except that it also includes a former member who has earned service credit and has not received a refund of accumulated contributions under section 5505.19 of the Revised Code. A member who became a member of the state highway patrol before January 1, 2020, may be granted retirement under this division if the membe...

...On receipt of notice from the public employees retirement system, Ohio police and fire pension fund, state teachers retirement system, or school employees retirement system of the re-employment of a retirant, the state highway patrol retirement system shall not pay, or if paid shall recover, any amount to be forfeited by the retirant in accordance with section 145.38, 742.26, 3307.35, or 3309.341 of the Revised Code.

...(A) As used in this division, "member" has the same meaning as in section 5505.01 of the Revised Code, except that it also includes a former member who has earned service credit and has not received a refund of accumulated contributions under section 5505.19 of the Revised Code. On application for retirement as provided in section 5505.16 of the Revised Code, a member of the state highway patrol retirement system ma...

...(A) A retirant who retired prior to September 21, 1994, under section 5505.16 of the Revised Code may elect to receive the actuarial equivalent of the retirant's pension in a lesser amount payable for the remainder of the retirant's life and continuing after death to the retirant's surviving designated beneficiary under one of the optional plans described in division (A)(2)(a), (b), or (c) of section 5505.162 of the ...

...(A)(1) Upon retirement as provided in section 5505.16 of the Revised Code, a state highway patrol retirement system retirant shall receive a life pension, without guaranty or refund, equal to the greater of one thousand fifty dollars or the sum of two and one-half per cent of the retirant's final average salary multiplied by the first twenty years of total service credit, plus two and one-quarter per cent of the reti...

...(A) All persons who retired and were eligible to receive a pension that was payable prior to July 1, 1968, pursuant to division (A)(1) of section 5505.17 or division (B)(1) of section 5505.18 of the Revised Code, shall receive an additional monthly payment of two dollars for each year between the member's effective date of retirement or disability and December 31, 1971, or an additional fifty dollars, whichever is le...

...On and after the effective date of this section, all persons who retired and were eligible to receive a pension that was first payable on or after July 1, 1968, and prior to July 1, 1971, pursuant to division (A)(1) of section 5505.17 or division (B)(1) of section 5505.18 of the Revised Code, shall receive an additional monthly payment of two dollars for each year between the member's effective date of retirement or ...

...(A) Effective July 1, 1981, each person eligible to receive an age and service or disability pension, allowance, or benefit pursuant to Chapter 5505. of the Revised Code, that was based upon an award made effective before October 1, 1974, shall have the person's monthly pension increased by five per cent of the first five thousand dollars of the annual pension, allowance, or benefit. (B) Effective July 1, 1981, eac...

...(A) Eligibility for an increase under this section shall be determined as follows: (1) For a person whose pension effective date is prior to January 7, 2013, an "eligible person" is one of the following: (a) A person fifty-three years old or older who has been receiving a pension pursuant to division (B) of section 5505.16, division (A)(1) of section 5505.17, or division (B) of section 5505.18 of the Revised Code f...

...(A) In addition to assessing a penalty pursuant to section 5168.51 of the Revised Code, the department of medicaid may do any of the following if a nursing facility or hospital fails to pay the full amount of a franchise permit fee installment when due: (1) Withhold an amount less than or equal to the installment and penalty assessed under section 5168.51 of the Revised Code from a medicaid payment due the nu...

...(A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the nursing home franchise permit fee fund. All payments and penalties paid by nursing homes and hospitals under sections 5168.47, 5168.48, and 5168.51 of the Revised Code shall be deposited into the fund. The fund shall also consist of money deposited into it pursuant to sections 3769.08 and 3769.26 of the Revised Code. Subject to division (B) of section 3769.08 of t...

...The department of medicaid may make any investigation it considers appropriate to obtain information necessary to fulfill its duties under sections 5168.40 to 5168.56 of the Revised Code. At the request of the department, the attorney general shall aid in any such investigations. The attorney general shall institute and prosecute all necessary actions for the enforcement of sections 5168.40 to 5168.56 of the R...

...The medicaid director shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to do both of the following: (A) Prescribe the actions the department of medicaid will take to cease implementation of sections 5168.40 to 5168.56 of the Revised Code if the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services determines that the franchise permit fee established by those sections is an impermissibl...

...As used in sections 5168.60 to 5168.71 of the Revised Code: (A) Unless modified under division (C)(2) of section 5168.61 of the Revised Code, "franchise permit fee rate" means the following: (1) For fiscal year 2020, twenty-three dollars and ninety-five cents; (2) For fiscal year 2021 and each fiscal year thereafter, twenty-four dollars and eighty-nine cents. (B) "Indirect guarantee percentage" means the perc...

...The department of developmental disabilities shall do all of the following: (A) Subject to section 5168.64 of the Revised Code and divisions (B) and (C) of this section and for the purposes specified in section 5168.69 of the Revised Code, quarterly assess each ICF/IID a franchise permit fee equal to the product of the following: (1) The franchise permit fee rate; (2) The number of the ICF/IID's inpatient days ...

...(A) Each ICF/IID shall submit to the department of developmental disabilities a monthly report containing the number of the ICF/IID's inpatient days for that month. A report is due not later than fifteen days after the last day of the month for which it is submitted. Reports shall be submitted to the department in a manner the department shall prescribe. The department may review the data included in a report for acc...

...If the operator of an ICF/IID converts, pursuant to section 5124.60 or 5124.61 of the Revised Code, all of the ICF/IID's beds to providing home and community-based services and the operator's provider agreement for the ICF/IID is terminated as a consequence, the department of developmental disabilities shall terminate the ICF/IID's franchise permit fee effective on the first day of the quarter immediately following t...

...If an ICF/IID fails to pay the full amount of an installment when due, the department of developmental disabilities may assess a five per cent penalty on the amount due for each month or fraction thereof the installment is overdue.

...(A) In addition to assessing a penalty pursuant to section 5168.65 of the Revised Code, the department of developmental disabilities may do any of the following if an ICF/IID fails to pay the full amount of a franchise permit fee installment when due: (1) Withhold an amount less than or equal to the installment and penalty assessed under section 5168.65 of the Revised Code from a medicaid payment due the ICF/...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the home and community-based services for persons with developmental disabilities fund. All installment payments and penalties paid by an ICF/IID under sections 5168.63 and 5168.65 of the Revised Code shall be deposited into the fund. As soon as possible after the end of each quarter, the medicaid director shall certify to the director of budget and management the amount ...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the department of developmental disabilities operating and services fund. The fund shall consist of the money transferred to it under section 5168.68 of the Revised Code. The money in the fund shall be used for the expenses of the programs that the department of developmental disabilities administers and the department's administrative expenses.

...The department of developmental disabilities may make any investigation it considers appropriate to obtain information necessary to fulfill its duties under sections 5168.60 to 5168.71 of the Revised Code. At the request of the department, the attorney general shall aid in any such investigations. The attorney general shall institute and prosecute all necessary actions for the enforcement of sections 5168.60 to...

...To the extent authorized by rules authorized by section 5162.021 of the Revised Code, the director of developmental disabilities shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to do both of the following: (A) Prescribe the actions the department of developmental disabilities will take to cease implementation of sections 5168.60 to 5168.71 of the Revised Code if the United States secretar...

...As used in sections 5168.75 to 5168.86 of the Revised Code: (A) "Basic health care services" means all of the services listed in division (A)(1) of section 1751.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "Care management system" has the same meaning as in section 5167.01 of the Revised Code. (C) "Dual eligible individual" has the same meaning as in section 5160.01 of the Revised Code. (D) "Franchise fee" means the fee impos...

...(A) For the purposes specified in section 5168.85 of the Revised Code and subject to sections 5168.82, 5168.83, and 5168.84 of the Revised Code, a franchise fee is hereby imposed each month beginning with July 2017 on each health insuring corporation plan. The franchise fee shall have a component based on Ohio medicaid member months and another component based on other Ohio member months. (B) The department of medi...

...The department of medicaid may request that a health insuring corporation provide the department documentation the department needs to verify the amount of the franchise fees imposed on the health insuring corporation plans administered by the corporation and to ensure the corporation's compliance with sections 5168.75 to 5168.86 of the Revised Code. On receipt of the request, the health insuring corporation shall pr...

...If the department of medicaid determines that the amount of a franchise fee that a health insuring corporation paid is less than the amount it should have paid, the department shall notify the health insuring corporation. Except as otherwise provided by the results of a reconsideration conducted under section 5168.80 of the Revised Code, the health insuring corporation shall pay the amount due.

...A health insuring corporation may request a reconsideration of a determination made by the department of medicaid under section 5168.79 of the Revised Code. A reconsideration may be requested solely on the grounds that the department made a material error in making the determination. A request for a reconsideration must be received by the department not later than fifteen days after the date the department notifies t...

...If a health insuring corporation fails to pay the full amount of a component of a franchise fee when due, the department of medicaid may assess a ten per cent penalty on the amount due for each month or fraction thereof that the component of the franchise fee is overdue.

...The franchise fee shall not be imposed on any health insuring corporation plan unless there is in effect a waiver authorizing the franchise fee issued by the United States secretary of health and human services pursuant to section 1903(w)(3)(E) of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1396b(w)(3)(E).

...If the total amount of franchise fees imposed on all health insuring corporation plans under section 5168.76 of the Revised Code during a fiscal year exceeds the indirect guarantee percentage of the net patient revenue for all health insuring corporations for that fiscal year and seventy-five per cent or more of all health insuring corporations receive enhanced medicaid payments or other state payments equal to seven...

...If the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services determines that the franchise fee is an impermissible health care-related tax under section 1903(w) of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1396b(w), the department of medicaid shall do either of the following as appropriate: (A) Modify the imposition of the franchise fee, including (if necessary) the amount of the franchise fee, in a manner needed for ...

...(A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the health insuring corporation franchise fee fund. All payments and penalties paid by health insuring corporations under sections 5168.77, 5168.79, and 5168.81 of the Revised Code shall be deposited into the fund. money in the fund shall be used to make medicaid payments to medicaid providers and medicaid managed care organizations. (B) Any interest or other investm...

...The medicaid director may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. as necessary to implement sections 5168.75 to 5168.86 of the Revised Code.

...The board of township trustees, by resolution, may require any person to obtain a permit before installing a driveway culvert or making any excavation in a township highway or highway right-of-way within its jurisdiction, except an excavation to repair, rehabilitate, or replace a pole already installed for the purpose of providing electric or telecommunications service. The board, as a condition to the granting of th...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (D) of this section, a board of township trustees by resolution may place a graveled or unimproved township road under its jurisdiction that is not passable year-round or any portion of such a road on nonmaintained status. Prior to adopting a resolution that places a road on nonmaintained status, the board shall hold at least two public hearings to allow for public comment...

...Whoever violates section 5571.16 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.

...When the board of township trustees has determined that any road shall be constructed, reconstructed, resurfaced, or improved, the board shall determine by resolution, by unanimous vote if acting without a petition, and by a majority vote if acting upon a petition, the route and termini of the road, and the kind and extent of the improvement, and at the same time shall order the county engineer or, if the township ha...

...Upon the completion of the surveys, plans, profiles, cross sections, estimates, and specifications for a road improvement by the county engineer, the engineer shall transmit to the board of township trustees copies of the same. Except in cases of reconstruction or repair of roads, where no land or property is taken, the board shall then publish, once a week for two consecutive weeks, a notice using at least one of th...

...If, after determination of all claims for compensation and damages on account of land or property taken for any road improvement, the board of township trustees is satisfied that the public convenience and welfare require that such improvement be made, and that the costs of such improvement will not be excessive in view of its public utility, such board shall order, by resolution, that such improvement be proceeded w...

...The compensation, damages, and costs of township road improvements shall be apportioned and paid in any of the following methods, as set forth in the petition: (A) Any part thereof shall be assessed against: (1) The real estate abutting upon said improvement; (2) The real estate situated within one-half mile of either side thereof; (3) The real estate situated within one mile of either side thereof, according to ...

...When property is separated from a road improvement by a canal, street or interurban railway, steam railroad, or in any similar manner, such property shall be regarded, for the purpose of assessment under the township road improvement laws as property abutting upon the improvement. The land owned or occupied by such street or interurban railway or steam railroad and the land lying back thereof shall be assessed, on ac...

...The board of township trustees, upon a unanimous vote, may, without a petition therefor, order that all compensation, damages, and costs of constructing any road improvement be paid out of the proceeds of any levy for road purposes on the grand duplicate of the township, or out of any road improvement fund available therefor.

...As soon as all questions of compensation and damages have been determined for any road improvement, the county engineer shall make, upon actual view, an estimated assessment, upon the real estate to be charged, of such part of the compensation, damages, and costs of such improvement as is to be specially assessed. Such assessment shall be according to the benefits which will result to the real estate. In making such ...

...All assessments, with interest accrued thereon, made as provided by sections 5573.07 to 5573.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be certified to the county auditor and by him placed upon a special duplicate, to be collected as other taxes. The principal shall be payable in not more than twenty semiannual installments, extending over a period of not more than ten years, as determined by the board of township tru...

...If any lands to be assessed for road improvement are subject to a life estate, the assessments shall, upon application of the life tenant to the board of township trustees, be apportioned between the owner of the life estate and the owner of the fee, in proportion to the value of their respective estates. Upon filing of the application the board shall fix a date for hearing the same and cause notice of such hearing t...

...The proportion of the compensation, damages, and costs of any road improvement to be paid by the township shall be paid out of any road improvement fund available for it. For the purpose of providing by taxation a fund for the payment of the township's proportion of the compensation, damages, and costs of constructing, reconstructing, resurfacing, or improving roads under sections 5571.01, 5571.06, 5571.07, 5571.15,...

...The board of township trustees, in anticipation of the collection, for road improvements, of taxes and assessments or any part thereof, may, whenever in its judgment it is necessary, sell the bonds of the township in any amount not greater than the aggregate sum necessary to pay the estimated compensation, damages, and costs of such improvement.

...The boards of township trustees of two or more townships may construct, reconstruct, resurface, or improve a township road or part thereof, along the line between such townships, extending into or through all such townships, or wholly within the township but within less than the legal assessment distance of the township line. In such case the several boards, when acting as a joint board and when acting separately, in...

...The board of township trustees of a township in which there is located a municipal corporation or a part thereof, may, by resolution, erect that portion of the township not included within the corporate limits of the municipal corporation into a road district, whenever in its opinion it is expedient and necessary and for the public convenience and welfare, for the purpose of constructing, reconstructing, resurfacing...

...The proportion of the compensation, damages, and costs of any road improvement to be paid by a township road district shall be paid out of any road improvement fund available for it. For the purpose of providing by taxation a fund for the payment of a township road district's proportion of the compensation, damages, and costs of constructing, reconstructing, resurfacing, improving, maintaining, repairing, and draggi...

...The board of township trustees of a township in which there is located a municipal corporation or a part of a municipal corporation, and in which that portion of the township not included within the limits of such municipal corporation has been erected into a road district, may enter into an agreement with the board of county commissioners of the county within which such township is situated, providing for the constr...

...(A) In the maintenance and repair of roads, the board of township trustees may proceed either by contract or force account, but, unless the exemption specified in division (C) of this section applies, if the board wishes to proceed by force account, it first shall cause the county engineer to complete the force account assessment form developed by the auditor of state under section 117.16 of the Revised Code. Except ...

...After the board of township trustees has decided to proceed with a road improvement, it shall advertise for bids once, not later than two weeks prior to the date fixed for the letting of contracts, using at least one of the following methods: (A) In the print or digital edition of a newspaper of general circulation within the township; (B) On the official public notice web site established under section 125.182 o...

...No contract for any road improvement shall be awarded at a price more than ten per cent in excess of the estimated cost. The bids received shall be opened at the time stated in the notice. If no bids are made that equal one hundred ten per cent of the estimate or less, the board of township trustees shall either readvertise based upon the original estimate, or request an amended estimate from the county engineer, who...

...Before entering into a contract, the board of township trustees shall require a bond indemnifying the township against damages that may be suffered by failure to perform the contract according to the contract's provisions and in accordance with the specifications for the improvement. The township fiscal officer shall not draw a warrant in favor of any contractor for estimates, on account of a contract let under s...

...(A) In case of an unforeseen contingency not contemplated by a road improvement contract, allowances for extra work may be made by a board of township trustees, but the board must first enter into a new contract in writing for the extra work. If the estimate for extra work is less than twenty-five thousand dollars for any particular line item listed in the new contract and the overall total estimate for the extra wor...

...The board of township trustees may accept donations of labor or material for a proposed road improvement, and in determining which road shall first be improved it may, when acting by unanimous vote and without a petition, take into consideration the amount of such donations. The board may require the persons donating labor or material to enter into a contract that such labor will be performed and material furnished a...

...The work of road improvement shall be done under the general supervision and direction of the county engineer and he may appoint some competent person to act as inspector during the construction of such improvement. The person appointed as inspector shall receive, for each day actually employed at such work, a sum not to exceed four dollars, to be fixed by the engineer and paid out of any fund available for the const...