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...(A) There is hereby created the Ohio facilities construction commission. The commission shall administer the design and construction of improvements to public facilities of the state in accordance with this chapter, the provision of financial assistance to school districts for the acquisition or construction of classroom facilities in accordance with Chapter 3318. of the Revised Code, and any other applicable provisi...

...(A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the Ohio facilities construction commission fund, consisting of transfers of moneys authorized by the general assembly and revenues received by the Ohio facilities construction commission under section 123.21 of the Revised Code. Investment earnings on moneys in the fund shall be credited to the fund. Moneys in the fund may be used by the commission, in performing its...

...(A) The Ohio facilities construction commission may perform any act and ensure the performance of any function necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of, and exercise the powers granted under this chapter or any other provision of the Revised Code, including any of the following: (1) Except as otherwise provided in section 123.211 of the Revised Code, prepare, or contract to be prepared, by licensed eng...

...(A) Notwithstanding any contrary provision of section 123.21 of the Revised Code, the executive director of the Ohio facilities construction commission may authorize any of the following agencies to administer any capital facilities project, the estimated cost of which, including design fees, construction, equipment, and contingency amounts, is less than three million dollars: (1) The department of mental health a...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Construct" includes reconstruct, improve, renovate, enlarge, or otherwise alter. (2) "Energy consumption analysis" means the evaluation of all energy consuming systems, components, and equipment by demand and type of energy, including the internal energy load imposed on a facility by its occupants and the external energy load imposed by climatic conditions. (3) "Facility" means a ...

...(A) As used in this section, "institution of higher education" means a state university or college, as defined in section 3345.12 of the Revised Code, or a state community college. (B) The Ohio facilities construction commission shall establish a local administration competency certification program to certify institutions of higher education to administer capital facilities projects pursuant to section 3345....

...(A) The executive director of the Ohio facilities construction commission shall regulate the rate of tolls to be collected on the construction or improvement of the public works of the state, and shall fix all rentals and collect all tolls, rents, fines, commissions, fees, and other revenues arising from any source in the construction or improvement of the public works of the state. (B) Deposits made to the c...

...(A) The Ohio facilities construction commission shall provide for the construction of a cultural project in conformity with Chapter 153. of the Revised Code, except for construction services provided on behalf of the state by a governmental agency or a cultural organization in accordance with divisions (B) and (C) of this section. (B) In order for a governmental agency or a cultural organization to provide construct...

...The theater in the Vern Riffe center for government and the arts in Columbus, formerly known as the capitol theatre, shall be known as the Speaker Jo Ann Davidson theatre.

...Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, as used in this chapter: (A) "Civil service" includes all offices and positions of trust or employment in the service of the state and in the service of the counties, cities, city health districts, general health districts, and city school districts of the state. (B) "State service" includes all offices and positions in the service of the state and the counties an...

...(A) When the territory of a city school district is not located in more than one city, the civil service commission of the city in which the district has territory shall serve as the commission for the school district. When the territory of a city school district is located in more than one city, the commission of the city that shall serve as the commission for the school district shall be the commission of the city ...

...The director of administrative services and the state personnel board of review shall exercise all functions, powers, and duties that formerly were by law devolved upon, vested in and imposed upon the state civil service commission and the offices of commissioners and members and upon their employees, agents, and representatives. Whenever in any law or rule of this state or any political subdivision, "state civil se...

...(A) The state personnel board of review shall exercise the following powers and perform the following duties: (1) Hear appeals, as provided by law, of employees in the classified state service from final decisions of appointing authorities or the director of administrative services relative to reduction in pay or position, job abolishments, layoff, suspension, discharge, assignment or reassignment to a new or diff...

...In addition to those powers enumerated in Chapters 123. and 125. of the Revised Code and as provided elsewhere by law, the powers, duties, and functions of the department of administrative services not specifically vested in and assigned to, or to be performed by, the state personnel board of review are hereby vested in and assigned to, and shall be performed by, the director of administrative services. These ...

...The state personnel board of review shall be composed of three members, not more than two of whom shall be affiliated with the same political party, to be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. Terms of office shall be for six years, commencing on the ninth day of February and ending on the eighth day of February, except that upon expiration of the term ending February 11, 1975, th...

...No person shall be appointed, removed, transferred, laid off, suspended, reinstated, promoted, or reduced as an officer or employee in the civil service, in any manner or by any means other than those prescribed in this chapter, and the rules of the director of administrative services for positions in the service of the state or the municipal or civil service township civil service commission within their respe...

...(A) The director of administrative services shall appoint examiners, inspectors, clerks, and other assistants as necessary to carry out sections 124.01 to 124.64 of the Revised Code. The director may designate persons in or out of the service of the state to serve as examiners or assistants under the director's direction. An examiner or assistant shall receive the compensation for each day actually and necessari...

...The director of administrative services shall maintain suitable offices. The officers of the state, or any political subdivision thereof, at any place where examinations or hearings are directed to be held by the state personnel board of review or the director, shall allow the reasonable use of public buildings and rooms and furnish them with heat and light, for holding such examinations or hearings, and in all prope...

...The director of administrative services shall do all of the following: (A) Prescribe, amend, and enforce administrative rules for the purpose of carrying out the functions, powers, and duties vested in and imposed upon the director by this chapter. Except in the case of rules adopted pursuant to section 124.14 of the Revised Code, the prescription, amendment, and enforcement of rules under this division are s...

...The civil service of the state and the several counties, cities, civil service townships, city health districts, general health districts, and city school districts of the state shall be divided into the unclassified service and the classified service. (A) The unclassified service shall comprise the following positions, which shall not be included in the classified service, and which shall be exempt from all examina...

...(A) Within ninety days after an appointing authority appoints an employee to an unclassified position in the service of the state, the appointing authority shall notify the department of administrative services of that appointment. (B) On the date an appointing authority appoints an employee to an unclassified position in the state service, the appointing authority shall provide the employee with written infor...

...(A) As used in this section, "state employee" means a state employee who does not accrue vacation leave under section 124.134 of the Revised Code. (B) Each full-time state employee or county department of job and family services employee, including full-time hourly rate employees, after service of one year with the state, or any political subdivision of the state, shall have earned and will be due upon the attainmen...

...An employee of a state institution of higher education to whom section 124.13 of the Revised Code is applicable, which is limited in any case to employees thereof in the classified service, who became an employee of such state institution in connection with the transfer thereto or to the state of ownership or control of the institution at which he was employed immediately prior to such transfer, is entitled to have ...

...A state employee who is a certified disaster service volunteer of the American red cross or who is a verified team rubicon volunteer may be granted leave from work with pay for not to exceed thirty work days in each year to participate in specialized disaster relief services, upon the request of the American red cross or of team rubicon for the services of that employee and upon the approval of that employee's appoin...

...(A) Each full-time permanent state employee paid in accordance with section 124.152 of the Revised Code and those employees listed in divisions (B)(2) and (4) of section 124.14 of the Revised Code shall be credited with vacation leave with full pay according to length of service and accruing at a corresponding rate per biweekly pay period, as follows: Length of Service Per Pay Period

...Any property owner or public corporation may accept the appraisals in its favor of benefits, of damages, and of lands to be taken made by the board of appraisers of a conservancy district, or may acquiesce in the board's failure to appraise damages in its favor, and shall be construed to have done so unless, within thirty days after the publication provided for in section 6101.32 of the Revised Code, or such addition...

...Each county treasurer charged with collection of assessments shall make due report to the county auditor of the sums collected by the treasurer, and the auditor shall issue a warrant payable to the treasurer of the conservancy district for all sums of money in the hands of the county treasurer, according to the report. The auditor, as soon as the records for collection are closed by the county treasurer according to ...

...If any county treasurer or other person entrusted with the collection of assessments fails to make prompt payment of the assessments, or any part of them, when collected under this chapter to the treasurer of the conservancy district upon the presentation of a proper demand, the county treasurer or other person shall forfeit ten per cent on the amount of the delinquency. The forfeiture shall at once become due and pa...

...(A) If two or more conservancy districts have been organized in a territory which, in the opinion of the board of directors of the conservancy district of any one of the districts, should constitute only one district, the board of any one of the districts may petition the court for an order uniting those districts into a single district. The petition shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the court of common pl...

...The authority of a board of county commissioners to acquire, construct, maintain, and operate water supply facilities for a county sewer district in territory of a municipal corporation, or a regional district established under Chapter 6119. of the Revised Code, that is in whole or in part within the county sewer district is the same as provided by law with respect to territory within a county sewer district that is...

...As used in sections 6115.01 to 6115.79 of the Revised Code: (A) "Publication" means once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the counties wherein publication is to be made or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. Publication need not be made on the same day of the week in each of the weeks; but not less than fourteen days, excluding the day of first publicati...

...Within thirty days after entering the decree incorporating a sanitary district, providing the district is wholly within one county, the court shall appoint one person who shall be a resident elector within the district as a director of the district for a term of five years from the date of the person's appointment. If the district is composed of more than one county or part thereof, each county is entitled to one dir...

...The authority of a board of county commissioners to acquire, construct, maintain, and operate sanitary or drainage facilities or prevention or replacement facilities for a county sewer district in the territory of a municipal corporation, or a regional district established under Chapter 6119. of the Revised Code, that is in whole or in part within the county sewer district is the same as provided by law with re...

...In lieu of submitting to the electors for approval the question of a tax levy outside the ten-mill limitation and levying that tax following approval, as provided for in sections 6119.31 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 t...

...When any special assessment is levied under sections 6119.52 and 6119.58 of the Revised Code, and water resource revenue bonds or notes of the regional water and sewer district are issued pledging the same, the secretary of the board of trustees of the district shall on or before the second Monday in September of each year, certify such assessment to the county auditor, stating the amounts and the time of payment. Th...

...(A) Upon receiving the notice required under division (A) of section 6131.07 of the Revised Code, the county engineer shall prepare a preliminary report on the proposed improvement, which shall include all of the following: (1) A preliminary estimate of the cost of the proposed improvement; (2) Comments on the feasibility of the project; (3) A statement of the engineer's opinion as to whether benefits from the ...

...(A) At the final hearing, or at such time the final hearing is adjourned to hear claims for compensation or damages, the board of county commissioners shall hear any competent evidence offered by any affected owner upon the county engineer's estimate of damages and upon any claim filed for compensation or damages. (B) Upon consideration of all the evidence, the county engineer's schedule of estimated damages, and a...

...(A) All taxes and special assessments levied by the legislative authority of the dissolved village, including taxes levied in accordance with Chapters 718. and 5745. of the Revised Code, shall continue to be collected after the date the dissolution is effective to the extent that the receiver-trustee determines that the revenue is needed to pay the outstanding debts, obligations, and liabilities of the village and ma...

...(A) As used in this section, "local government fund payments" means payments a dissolved village would receive under sections 5747.503, 5747.51, and 5747.53, and division (C) of section 5747.50 of the Revised Code, as applicable, if not for the dissolution of the village. (B) A county budget commission of a county in which all or part of the former territory of the dissolved village is located shall exclude the dis...

...Upon the institution of proceedings by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation, the board of county commissioners of a county, the department of transportation of the state, or an individual, partnership, or corporation in the court of common pleas, for the vacation of any public streets, alley, avenue, lane, road, boulevard, driveway, or other public way, or any portion thereof, in a village, or additio...

...When any special assessment, levied under section 727.25 of the Revised Code and in anticipation of which securities of the municipal corporation have not been issued, is unpaid, the legislative authority of the municipal corporation may order the clerk of the legislative authority or any other proper officer of the municipal corporation to certify the unpaid special assessment to the county auditor for collection. T...

...As used in this section, "county" means the county of residence of an individual who signs a nominating petition. Election of the employee members, firefighter retirant member, and police retirant member of the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund shall be under the supervision and direction of the board in accordance with rules adopted under section 742.045 of the Revised Code. Nominat...

...cted of or pleads guilty to a felony, a theft offense as defined in section 2913.01 of the Revised Code, or a violation of section 102.02, 102.03, 102.04, 2921.02, 2921.11, 2921.13, 2921.31, 2921.41, 2921.42, 2921.43, or 2921.44 of the Revised Code shall be deemed vacant. A person who has pleaded guilty to or been convicted of an offense of that nature is ineligible for election to the office of employee member, fire...

...In lieu of sections 749.04 to 749.34 of the Revised Code regarding any general hospital owned by a municipal corporation, or any general hospital in which a joint township hospital district board or a board of county commissioners is participating with a municipal corporation under section 513.08 or 749.16 of the Revised Code, the council of such municipal corporation may, upon such terms as are agreed between the co...

...In any county in which, prior to May 20, 1920, there has been constructed and maintained a joint municipal and county workhouse, either the municipal corporation or the county may withdraw therefrom, may decline to further participate in the expense of maintaining such institution, and may sell its interest in such institution. In the event of a sale thereof by such municipal corporation or county, the proceeds ther...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, in a city, a workhouse erected for the joint use of the city and the county in which such city is located shall be managed and controlled by a joint board composed of the board of county commissioners and the board of control of the city, and in a village by the board of county commissioners and the board of trustees of public affairs. Such joint board sha...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation, the board of township trustees, or the board of county commissioners of any county may designate and set apart for use as parks, playgrounds, playfields, gymnasiums, public baths, swimming pools, or indoor recreation centers, any lands or buildings owned by any such municipal corporation, township, or county and not dedicated or devoted to other public use. Such m...

...In any city or county in which there is a symphony association, an area arts council, an art museum, or other similar organization which is incorporated, organized, and operated in the manner and for the purposes stated in section 757.03 of the Revised Code, such city or county, or both, may pay the symphony association, council, art museum, or organization annually, in quarterly installments, in the case of a ...

...As used in this section and section 9.39 of the Revised Code: (1) "Color of office," "public office," and "public official" have the same meanings as in section 117.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Legislative authority" means a board of county commissioners a board of township trustees, the legislative authority of a municipal corporation, or the board of education of a school district. A person who is a state offi...

...Whoever violates division (A)(2) of section 931.07 of the Revised Code or section 931.08 of the Revised Code shall be fined five hundred dollars for violation of each section. The clerk of the court that receives payment of the fine money shall forward half of the money to the board of township trustees of the township and half of the money to the board of county commissioners of the county in which the applica...