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...(A) A parent who voluntarily delivers a child under section 2151.3516 of the Revised Code has the absolute right to remain anonymous. The anonymity of a parent who voluntarily delivers a child does not affect any duty imposed under section 2151.3517 or 2151.3518 of the Revised Code. A parent who voluntarily delivers a child may leave the place at which the parent delivers the child at any time after the delivery of t...

...(A) No person described in section 2151.3517 of the Revised Code and no other person employed by an entity described in that section shall do the following with respect to a parent who voluntarily delivers a child under that section: (1) Coerce or otherwise try to force the parent into revealing the identity of the child's parents; (2) Pursue or follow the parent after the parent leaves the place at which the child...

...As used in sections 2151.426 to 2151.428 of the Revised Code: (A) "Children's advocacy center" means a center operated by participating entities within a county or two or more contiguous counties to perform functions and activities and provide services, in accordance with the interagency agreement entered into under section 2151.428 of the Revised Code, regarding reports received under section 2151.421 of the Revise...

...The "interstate compact for juveniles" is hereby ratified, enacted into law, and entered into by the state of Ohio as a party to the compact with any other state that has legally joined in the compact as follows: INTERSTATE COMPACT FOR JUVENILES Article I -- Purpose The compacting states to this interstate compact for juveniles recognize that each state is responsible for the proper supervision or return of juveni...

...children or children with intellectual disabilities, who are designated delinquent children, as defined in section 2152.02 of the Revised Code, or unruly children, as defined in section 2151.022 of the Revised Code, by order of a juvenile court, may make application to the department of youth services, created under section 5139.01 of the Revised Code, for financial assistance in defraying the county's share of the ...

... (2) The opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency; (3) A metropolitan housing authority established pursuant to section 3735.27 of the Revised Code. If an entity described in this division determines that the young adult qualifies for services from the entity, that entity, the young adult, and the agency to which the young adult made the request for independent living services shall enter into a writt...

...A qualified organization shall not authorize hosting with a host family if any person eighteen years of age or older who resides with the prospective host family previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any of the violations described in division (A)(4) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code, unless all of the following conditions are satisfied: (A) If the offense was a misdemeanor, or would be a misde...

...A host family shall immediately report knowledge or reasonable cause to suspect based on facts that would cause a reasonable person in a similar position to suspect, that the child who is subject to the host family agreement, has suffered or faces a threat of suffering any physical or mental wound, injury, disability, or condition of a nature that reasonably indicates abuse or neglect of the child to an employee of a...

...(A)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2) of this section, whoever violates division (D)(2) or (3) of section 2151.313 or division (A)(4) or (I)(2) of section 2151.421 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (2) Whoever violates division (A)(4) of section 2151.421 of the Revised Code knowing that a child has been abused or neglected and knowing that the person who committed ...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Act charged" means the act that is identified in a complaint, indictment, or information alleging that a child is a delinquent child. (B) "Admitted to a department of youth services facility" includes admission to a facility operated, or contracted for, by the department and admission to a comparable facility outside this state by another state or the United States. (C)(1) "Child" ...

...(A)(1)(a) After a complaint has been filed alleging that a child is a delinquent child for committing one or more acts that would be an offense if committed by an adult, if any of those acts would be aggravated murder, murder, attempted aggravated murder, or attempted murder if committed by an adult, the juvenile court at a hearing shall transfer the case if either of the following applies: (i) The child was sixtee...

...(A)(1) In any proceeding under this chapter other than a proceeding alleging that a child is an unruly child or a juvenile traffic offender, any party or the court may move for a determination regarding the child's competency to participate in the proceeding. (2) In any proceeding under this chapter other than a proceeding alleging that a child is an unruly child or a juvenile traffic offender, if the child who is t...

...(A) Upon completing an evaluation ordered pursuant to section 2152.53 of the Revised Code, an evaluator shall submit to the court a written competency assessment report. The report shall include the evaluator's opinion as to whether the child, due to mental illness, due to developmental disability, or otherwise due to a lack of mental capacity, is currently incapable of understanding the nature and objective of the p...

...A juvenile judge is subject to the same disabilities and may be removed from office for the same causes and in the same manner as a judge of the court of common pleas.

...An action to recover the title to or possession of real property shall be brought within twenty-one years after the cause of action accrued, but if a person entitled to bring the action is, at the time the cause of action accrues, within the age of minority or of unsound mind, the person, after the expiration of twenty-one years from the time the cause of action accrues, may bring the action within ten years after th...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Childhood sexual abuse" means any conduct that constitutes any of the violations identified in division (A)(1)(a) or (b) of this section and would constitute a criminal offense under the specified section of the Revised Code, if the victim of the violation is at the time of the violation a child under eighteen years of age or a child with a developmental disability or physical imp...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Dentist" means a person who is licensed under Chapter 4715. of the Revised Code to practice dentistry. (2) "Physician" means a person authorized under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to practice medicine and surgery, osteopathic medicine and surgery, or podiatric medicine and surgery. (3) "Registered nurse" means a nurse who is licensed as a registered nurse under Chapter 472...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Agency" means any nonhospital, charitable nonprofit corporation that is organized and operated pursuant to Chapter 1702. of the Revised Code and that satisfies all of the following, or any nonhospital, charitable association, group, institution, organization, or society that is not organized and not operated for profit and that satisfies all of the following: (a) It distributes ...

...ility for individuals with intellectual disabilities, as defined in section 5124.01 of the Revised Code. (vi) "Pharmacy" has the same meaning as in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code. (d) As used in divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section, "drug of abuse" has the same meaning as in section 4506.01 of the Revised Code. (6) Divisions (B)(1), (2), (3), (4), and (5) of this section apply to doctors of medicine, d...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Health care provider-sponsored organization" means an entity that is sponsored by hospitals, physician groups, other licensed health care providers, or any combination of hospitals, physician groups, or other licensed health care providers that are affiliated through common ownership or control and share financial risk for the purpose of delivering health care services. (2) "Inju...

...(A) An action to revive a judgment can only be brought within ten years from the time it became dormant, unless the party entitled to bring that action, at the time the judgment became dormant, was within the age of minority, of unsound mind, or imprisoned, in which cases the action may be brought within ten years after the disability is removed. (B) For the purpose of calculating interest due on a revived judgment...

...(A) The judge of each court of appeals district composed of three judges who has the shortest time to serve, and who does not hold office by appointment or election to fill a vacancy, shall be the presiding judge of that district. If this judge is absent, and no administrative judge has been designated under division (C) of this section, the judge having the next shortest time to serve shall be the presiding judge. ...

...Cases commenced in or taken to the supreme court shall be entered on the docket in the order in which they are commenced, received, or filed. They shall be disposed of in the same order, except that the court may dispose of the following classes of cases in advance of their order on the docket: (A) Proceedings in quo warranto, mandamus, procedendo, prohibition, or habeas corpus; (B) Cases in which the person seekin...

...(A) Upon the filing of a motion for an order of attachment pursuant to section 2715.03 of the Revised Code, the plaintiff shall file with the clerk of the court a praecipe instructing the clerk to issue to the defendant against whom the motion was filed a notice of the proceeding. Upon receipt of the praecipe, the clerk shall issue the notice which shall be in substantially the following form: "(Name and Address of...

...(A) Upon the filing of a motion for attachment, a court may issue an order of attachment without issuing notice to the defendant against whom the motion was filed and without conducting a hearing if the court finds that there is probable cause to support the motion and that the plaintiff that filed the motion for attachment will suffer irreparable injury if the order is delayed until the defendant against whom the mo...