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...(A) Any township park district created pursuant to section 511.18 of the Revised Code that includes park land located outside the township in which the park district was established may be converted under the procedures provided in this section into a park district to be operated and maintained as provided for in this chapter, provided that there is no existing park district created under section 1545.04 of the Revis...

...(A) A county humane society organized under section 1717.05 of the Revised Code may appoint humane society agents for the purpose of prosecuting any person guilty of an act of cruelty to animals. Such agents may arrest any person found violating this chapter or any other law for protecting animals or preventing acts of cruelty thereto. Upon making an arrest, the humane society agent shall convey the person arrested b...

...(A) After the articles of incorporation have been filed, and at the first meeting of the board of directors of a county land reutilization corporation, the board shall adopt regulations for the government of the corporation, the conduct of its affairs, and the management of its property, consistent with law and the articles. The content of the regulations shall be governed by section 1702.11 of the Revised Code...

...Any corporation organized for the purpose of providing a home for deaf persons may enter into a contract with the board of county commissioners of any county, or with the proper officers of any municipal infirmary, for the care and maintenance in such home of any deaf person who is an inmate of the county home or of such municipal infirmary, or who is entitled to admission thereto. In every such case the county home ...

...(A) No municipal corporation, county, or township shall issue general obligations pursuant to section 133.51 of the Revised Code or expend moneys raised by taxation to provide, or assist in providing, housing pursuant to Section 16 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, unless the municipal corporation, county, or township has done all of the following: (1) Established or designated a housing advisory board pursuant...

...(A) A municipal court may establish by rule procedures for the resolution of disputes between parties. Any procedures so adopted shall include, but are not limited to, mediation. If the court establishes any procedures under this division, the court may include in the court's schedule of fees and costs under section 1901.26 of the Revised Code a reasonable fee, that is to be collected on the filing of each civi...

...Except in a case in which the child is alleged to be a serious youthful offender under section 2152.13 of the Revised Code, if the child resides in a county of the state and the proceeding is commenced in a juvenile court of another county, that court, on its own motion or a motion of a party, may transfer the proceeding to the county of the child's residence upon the filing of the complaint or after the adjudicatory...

...a joint board and proceed to organize a district for the establishment and support of a school, forestry camp, or other facility or facilities for the use of the juvenile courts of such counties, where delinquent, dependent, abused, unruly, or neglected children, or juvenile traffic offenders may be held for treatment, training, and rehabilitation, by using a site or buildings already established in one such county, ...

...(A) When a child is committed to the legal custody of the department of youth services under this chapter, the juvenile court relinquishes control with respect to the child so committed, except as provided in divisions (B), (C), (D), and (H) of this section or in sections 2152.82 to 2152.86 of the Revised Code. Subject to divisions (B), (C), and (D) of this section, sections 2151.353 and 2151.412 to 2151.421 of...

...ourt of general jurisdiction, including district courts of the United States, within this state shall be a lien upon lands and tenements of each judgment debtor within any county of this state from the time there is filed in the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas of such county a certificate of such judgment, setting forth all of the following: (A) The court in which the same was rendered; (B) The t...

...(A) As used in this section, "protection order issued by a court of another state" has the same meaning as in section 2919.27 of the Revised Code. (B) A person who has obtained a protection order issued by a court of another state may provide notice of the issuance of the order to judicial and law enforcement officials in any county of this state by registering the order in that county and filing a copy of th...

...ity director of law, and attorney for a district of a joint city and county workhouse or county workhouse. (B) "Clerk of the appropriate court" or "appropriate court clerk" means whichever of the following applies: (1) If the local detention facility in question is a multicounty correctional center, multicounty-municipal correctional center, district community-based correctional facility, or district workhouse, the...

...(A) The prosecuting attorney of the county in which an interception is to take place or in which an interception device is to be installed, or an assistant to the prosecuting attorney of that county who is specifically designated by the prosecuting attorney to exercise authority under this section, may authorize an application for an interception warrant to a judge of the court of common pleas of the county in which ...

...Persons committed to jail by a judge or magistrate for nonpayment of fine, or convicts sentenced to hard labor in the county jail, shall perform labor under the direction of the board of county commissioners within or outside the jail, within the county, and the board shall adopt orders and rules in relation to the performance of labor and the sheriff or other officer having the custody of the persons or convicts sha...

...(A) In a county that has no workhouse but in which is located a city that has a workhouse maintained by the city, the board of county commissioners may agree with the proper authorities of that city upon terms under which persons convicted of misdemeanors shall be maintained in the city workhouse at the expense of the county. In the case of persons committed to the city workhouse for the violation of a law of this st...

...(A) As used in this section, "eligible offender" means either of the following: (1) An offender who was convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation of section 2907.04 of the Revised Code to whom all of the following apply: (a) The sentencing court found the offender to be at low risk of reoffending based on a presentence investigation report that included a risk assessment, assessed by the single validated risk...

...'s residence and place of employment or school to the offices of the supervising authority; (6) The resources for residential and nonresidential sanctions or rehabilitative treatment available to the various courts having supervising authority; (7) Any other factors consistent with the purposes of sentencing. (D) The court having sole authority over a concurrent supervision offender pursuant to this section s...

..., licensing, leasing to, admitting to a school or program, or otherwise transacting business or engaging in activity with the individual to whom the certificate of qualification for employment was issued if the person knew of the certificate at the time of the alleged negligence or other fault. (2) In any proceeding on a claim against an employer for negligent hiring, a certificate of qualification for employment ...

...If established under the provisions of Chapter 302. of the Revised Code, the department of law shall be administered by a director of law who shall be an attorney-at-law admitted to the practice of law in this state. The director of law shall serve as legal advisor to the board of county commissioners, the county executive, and the county departments, offices, and agencies responsible to the board and the county exe...

...corporated territory of the county into districts or zones of such number, shape, and area as the board determines. All such regulations shall be uniform for each class or kind of building or other structure or use throughout any district or zone, but the regulations in one district or zone may differ from those in other districts or zones. For any activities permitted and regulated under Chapter 1513. or 1514. of ...

...If the zoning resolution is adopted by the board of county commissioners, such board shall cause the question of whether or not the proposed plan of zoning shall be put into effect to be submitted to the electors residing in the unincorporated area of the county included in the proposed plan of zoning for their approval or rejection at the next primary or general election, or a special election may be called fo...

...A board of county commissioners may itself prepare or cause to be prepared a county renewal plan, or any person or agency, public or private, may submit such a plan to the county. Prior to its approval of a county renewal project, the board shall submit such plan to the planning commission of the county for review and recommendations as to its conformity with the general plan for the development of the county. The pl...

...In the event of the levy of special assessments against lots or lands within a county renewal area which lots or lands are or become county-owned, the board of county commissioners may authorize the amount of the assessments thereon, or the amounts of the respective unpaid installments of such assessments, to be certified by the clerk of the board of county commissioners to the county auditor, entered upon the tax li...

...(A) At least ninety days, but not more than three hundred days, prior to applying for a certificate from the power siting board, or a material amendment to an existing certificate, for a utility facility, to be located in whole or in part in the unincorporated area of a county, the person intending to apply shall hold a public meeting in each county where the utility facility is to be located. (B) The applicant sh...

...The board of county commissioners may appoint a county administrator, who shall be the administrative head of the county under the direction and supervision of the board and who shall hold office at the pleasure of the board. In the event that the county administrator is absent from his office by reason of illness, death, vacation, resignation, or removal, the chairman of the board or a qualified person designated b...