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...(A) All records are the property of the public office concerned and shall not be removed, destroyed, mutilated, transferred, or otherwise damaged or disposed of, in whole or in part, except as provided by law or under the rules adopted by the records commissions provided for under sections 149.38 to 149.42 of the Revised Code or under the records programs established by the boards of trustees of state-supported...

...ttorney general may replevin any public records which have been unlawfully transferred or removed in violation of sections 149.31 to 149.44 of the Revised Code or otherwise transferred or removed unlawfully. Such records shall be returned to the office of origin and safeguards shall be established to prevent further recurrence of unlawful transfer or removal.

... control over purchases of equipment by public offices.

...y days after receipt of it. (D) Before public records are to be disposed of pursuant to an approved schedule of records retention and disposition, the records commission shall inform the Ohio history connection of the disposal through the submission of a certificate of records disposal for only the records required by the schedule to be disposed of, and shall give the Ohio history connection the opportunity for a p...

...reated in each municipal corporation a records commission composed of the chief executive or the chief executive's appointed representative, as chairperson, and the chief fiscal officer, the chief legal officer, and a citizen appointed by the chief executive. The commission shall appoint a secretary, who may or may not be a member of the commission and who shall serve at the pleasure of the commission. The com...

...office shall cause to be made only such records as are necessary for the adequate and proper documentation of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and essential transactions of the agency and for the protection of the legal and financial rights of the state and persons directly affected by the agency's activities.

...lage school district a school district records commission, and in each educational service center an educational service center records commission. Each records commission shall be composed of the president, the treasurer of the board of education or governing board of the educational service center, and the superintendent of schools in each such district or educational service center. The commission shall mee...

...and regional library district a library records commission composed of the members and the fiscal officer of the board of library trustees of the appropriate public library or library district. The commission shall meet at least once every twelve months. The functions of the commission shall be to review applications for one-time disposal of obsolete records and schedules of records retention and disposition...

... Revised Code a special taxing district records commission composed of, at a minimum, the chairperson, a fiscal representative, and a legal representative of the governing board of the special taxing district. The commission shall meet at least once every twelve months and upon the call of the chairperson. The functions of the commission shall be to review applications for one-time disposal of obsolete record...

...by created in each township a township records commission, composed of the chairperson of the board of township trustees and the fiscal officer of the township. The commission shall meet at least once every twelve months and upon the call of the chairperson. The function of the commission shall be to review applications for one-time disposal of obsolete records and schedules of records retention and dispositi...

...financial records shall be deemed to be public records as defined in division (A)(1) of section 149.43 of the Revised Code and are subject to the requirements of division (B) of that section, except that: (1) Any information directly or indirectly identifying a present or former individual patient or client or such an individual patient's or client's diagnosis, prognosis, or medical treatment, treatment for a mental...

...49.43 of the Revised Code. (2) Library records or patron information shall be released in the following situations: (a) In accordance with a subpoena, search warrant, or other court order; (b) To a law enforcement officer who is acting in the scope of the officer's law enforcement duties and who is investigating a matter involving public safety in exigent circumstances. (3) A library record or patron information ...

... the following: (a) Those portions of records containing specific and unique vulnerability assessments or specific and unique response plans either of which is intended to prevent or mitigate acts of terrorism, and communication codes or deployment plans of law enforcement or emergency response personnel; (b) Specific intelligence information and specific investigative records shared by federal and international ...

...office or person responsible for public records shall maintain a database or a list that includes the name of all public officials and employees elected to or employed by that public office. The database or list is a public record and shall be made available upon a request made pursuant to section 149.43 of the Revised Code. (B) As used in this section: (1) "Employee" has the same meaning as in section 9.40 of th...

...enile court judge, or an employee of a public children services agency or a county department of job and family services who is supervising the alleged delinquent child or arrestee who is also an abused child and who is under eighteen years of age; (3) An employee of a law enforcement agency for use in the employee's defense of a civil or administrative action arising out of the employee's involvement in the c...

...office or person responsible for public records, having custody of any record related to the traffic accident containing the personal information of the individual, shall transmit a copy of that record to the recipient identified in the request. The written request shall identify the individual on whose behalf the record is requested and the person to whom the record shall be transmitted. The record shall be transm...

...nters and archival institutions holding public records, respectively.

...esponsible for a public office's public records shall make available to the general public on the internet any document that contains an individual's social security number without otherwise redacting, encrypting, or truncating the social security number. (2) A public office or person responsible for a public office's public records that, prior to October 17, 2011, made available to the general public on the intern...

...urposes, the articles shall provide for public access in order that the maximum benefit be obtained. Articles of dedication may contain provisions for the management, custody, and transfer to the state or the Ohio history connection of real property or any estate, or right therein, provisions defining the rights of the owner or operating agency and of the Ohio history connection and its agents, and such other provis...

...g the planning phases, before work on a public improvement begins or at other appropriate times; and require that contractors performing work on public improvements cooperate with archaeological and historic survey and salvage efforts and notify the Ohio history connection or the board about archaeological discoveries. The director of the Ohio history connection shall determine the disposition of artifacts and skelet...

...chaeological survey and salvage work on public lands, dedicated archaeological preserves, and registered state archaeological landmarks is conducted in a scientific manner, the director of the Ohio history connection shall, in consultation with the Ohio archaeological council and the archaeological society of Ohio, adopt and may amend or rescind rules, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, prescribing ...

...(A) As used in this section, "abandoned property" has the same meaning as in section 1506.30 of the Revised Code. (B) The Ohio history connection shall establish a program to locate, identify, and evaluate abandoned property and other resources in Lake Erie. The Ohio history connection, in accordance with the authority granted under section 149.30 of the Revised Code, may list any abandoned property it finds to have...

...foundations, governmental agencies, and public and private organizations and institutions. The funds, gifts, grants, or bequests received pursuant to this section shall be deposited to the Ohio Ireland trade commission fund, which is created in the state treasury. The commission shall use the fund to defray the commission's administrative expenses and to carry out its purposes set forth in this section.

... of the state, to be known as the "Ohio public facilities commission," which in that name may contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, and exercise all other authority vested in that commission by sections 151.01 to 151.05 and 151.07 to 151.11 and Chapter 154. of the Revised Code. (B) The commission shall consist of, in each case ex officio, the governor, the treasurer of state, the auditor of state, the se...

...on. (A) As used in this section: (1) "Costs of capital facilities" includes related direct administrative expenses and allocable portions of direct costs of the using school district and the Ohio facilities construction commission. (2) "Net state lottery proceeds" means the amount determined by the director of budget and management to be an excess amount to the credit of the state lottery fund and to be transferre...