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...rom floods; regulate stream channels by changing, widening, and deepening the same; or to impound water in a reservoir and regulate the release thereof for the purpose or purposes of lessening the flow of a stream in times of floods, or augmenting the flow of a stream in times of below average runoff, or providing a supply of water for domestic, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational, conservational, or o...

...(A) As used in this section, "county" includes any agency, department, authority, commission, office, or board of a county. (B) Except as otherwise required or permitted by state or federal law, a contract entered into by the contracting authority for the procurement of goods or services shall not include any of the following: (1) A provision that requires the county to indemnify or hold harmless another person; ...

...During the collaborative family law process, at the request of another party, a party shall make timely, full, candid, and informal disclosure of information related to the collaborative matter without formal discovery and shall update promptly information that has materially changed. Parties may define the scope of disclosure, except as otherwise provided by law.

...An order described in section 3105.81 of the Revised Code shall meet all of the following requirements: (A) Be on the form created under section 3105.90 of the Revised Code; (B) Set forth the name and address of the public retirement program subject to the order or, if the court determines that the participant has contributions on deposit with more than one public retirement program, the name and address of each pu...

...The director of children and youth shall do all of the following: (A)(1) For a parent of a child who, if adopted, will be an adopted person as defined in section 3107.45 of the Revised Code, prescribe a form that has the following six components: (a) A component the parent signs under section 3107.081 or 5103.151 of the Revised Code to indicate the requirements of section 3107.082 or 5103.152 of the Revised Cod...

...(A) Except when giving effect to such a decree would violate the public policy of this state, a court decree terminating the relationship of parent and child, or establishing the relationship by adoption, issued pursuant to due process of law by a court of any jurisdiction outside this state, whether within or outside the United States, shall be recognized in this state, and the rights and obligations of the parties ...

...(A) An adopted person age twenty-one or older, or an adoptive parent of an adopted person at least age eighteen but under age twenty-one, may submit a request to the department of health for a copy of the contents of the adopted person's adoption file. If the adopted person includes with the request the adopted person's notarized signature and copies of two items of identification, or the adoptive parent includes wit...

...(A) A birth parent, or birth sibling age twenty-one or older, may submit a request to the department of health for assistance in finding an adopted person's name by adoption. The department shall examine the adopted person's adoption file to determine the adopted person's name by adoption and provide the birth parent or birth sibling with the adopted person's name by adoption if all of the following are the case: (1...

...On receipt of a regional prevention plan submitted pursuant to section 3109.174 of the Revised Code, the children's trust fund board may do either of the following: (A) Approve the plan; (B) Deny the plan; (C) Require the submitting council to make changes to the plan and submit an amended plan to the board.

...(A) The petitioner may not be required to pay a filing fee or other costs. (B) If an obligee prevails, a responding tribunal of this state may assess against an obligor filing fees, reasonable attorney's fees, other costs, and necessary travel and other reasonable expenses incurred by the obligee and the obligee's witnesses. The tribunal may not assess fees, costs, or expenses against the obligee or the support enfo...

...(A) A support enforcement agency or tribunal of this state shall disburse promptly any amounts received pursuant to a support order, as directed by the order. The agency or tribunal shall furnish to a requesting party or tribunal of another state or a foreign country a certified statement by the custodian of the record of the amounts and dates of all payments received. (B) If neither the obligor, nor the obligee who...

...(A) At least once every four years, the department of job and family services shall review the basic child support schedule issued by the department pursuant to section 3119.021 of the Revised Code to determine whether child support orders issued in accordance with that schedule and the worksheets created under rules adopted under section 3119.022 of the Revised Code adequately provide for the needs of children who a...

...If a person is found in contempt under Chapter 2705. for failing to comply with a court child support order issued in accordance with section 3119.30 of the Revised Code and the person previously has been found in contempt under that chapter, the court shall consider the failure to comply with the order as a change in circumstances for the purpose of modification of the amount of support due under the court child ...

...The child support enforcement agency shall review a court child support order on the date established pursuant to section 3119.60 of the Revised Code for formally beginning the review of the order and shall do all of the following: (A) Calculate a revised child support computation worksheet and issue a child support recommendation under the court child support order, including adding or adjusting a payment on arrear...

...The director of job and family services shall adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing a procedure for determining when existing child support orders should be reviewed to determine whether it is necessary and in the best interest of the children who are the subject of the child support order to change the child support order. The rules shall include, but are not limited to, all of the fo...

...(A) Reasons for which a child support order should terminate through the administrative process under section 3119.89 of the Revised Code include all of the following: (1) The child attains the age of majority if the child no longer attends an accredited high school on a full-time basis and the child support order requires support to continue past the age of majority only if the child continuously attends such a hi...

...When a court determines at a hearing conducted under section 3123.05 of the Revised Code, or a child support enforcement agency determines at a hearing under section 3123.04 of the Revised Code or pursuant to an investigation conducted under section 3123.02 of the Revised Code, that the obligor under the court support order in relation to which the hearing or investigation is conducted is unemployed and has no other ...

...When a court determines, at a hearing conducted under section 3121.031 of the Revised Code with respect to a court support order being modified, that an obligor is unemployed, is not receiving workers' compensation payments, does not have an account in a financial institution, and has no other source of income and no assets so that the application of division (A), (B), or (C) of section 3121.03 of the Revised Code wo...

...(A) On receipt of a notice that a lump sum payment of one hundred fifty dollars or more is to be paid to the obligor, the child support enforcement agency shall do either of the following: (1) If the obligor is in default under the support order or has any arrearages under the support order, issue an administrative order requiring the transmittal of the lump sum payment, or any portion of the lump sum payment suffic...

...A fine imposed pursuant to division (B) of section 3121.99 of the Revised Code shall be paid to the office of child support in the department of job and family services or, pursuant to section 3125.29 of the Revised Code, to the child support enforcement agency. The amount of the fine that does not exceed the amount of arrearage under the child support order shall be disbursed in accordance with the child support ord...

...(A) As used in the Revised Code, "uniform child custody jurisdiction and enforcement act" means the act addressing interstate recognition and enforcement of child custody orders adopted in 1997 by the national conference of commissioners on uniform state laws or any law substantially similar to the act adopted by another state. (B) As used in sections 3127.01 to 3127.53 of the Revised Code: (1) "Abandoned" means th...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Biological sex," "birth sex," and "sex" mean the biological indication of male and female, including sex chromosomes, naturally occurring sex hormones, gonads, and nonambiguous internal and external genitalia present at birth, without regard to an individual's psychological, chosen, or subjective experience of gender. (B) "Cross-sex hormone" means testosterone, estrogen, or progester...

...The director of health, after reviewing and considering any recommendations made by the Ohio state coroners association, shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing a protocol governing the performance of autopsies under section 313.121 of the Revised Code. The rules shall specify the information derived from an autopsy that a coroner is required to report to the state dep...

...The cause of death and the manner and mode in which the death occurred, as delivered by the coroner and incorporated in the coroner's verdict and in the death certificate filed with the division of vital statistics, shall be the legally accepted manner and mode in which such death occurred, and the legally accepted cause of death, unless the court of common pleas of the county in which the death occurred, after a hea...

...On the application of any person producing to the county engineer a certificate from the proper officer, the engineer or the engineer's deputy may survey all lands that have been sold for taxes, which lie within the engineer's county. When a portion of any land or lot has been sold for taxes, and, after the sale and before a survey of the land or lot, the land or lot is set off to another county by the erecti...