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...The director of developmental disabilities shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement sections 5123.51, 5123.52, and 5123.53 of the Revised Code. The rules shall establish rehabilitation standards for the purposes of section 5123.53 of the Revised Code and specify circumstances, other than meeting the standards, that constitute good cause for the purposes of that section.

...The department of developmental disabilities shall develop a statewide system of protective service in accordance with rules and standards established by the department. With respect to this program, the department may enter into a contract with any responsible public or private agency for provision of protective service by the agency, and the contract may permit the agency to charge the person r...

...Before entering upon the duties of trustee, an agency under contract with the department of developmental disabilities may require any of its employees having custody or control of funds or property to give bond to the probate court with sufficient surety, conditioned upon the full and faithful accounting of all trust funds which the employee holds. The amount of the bond shall be determi...

...The director of developmental disabilities shall designate a person to present the case on behalf of the state at the hearings provided for in sections 5123.75 and 5123.76 of the Revised Code. The designee of the director also may present the case on behalf of the state in any other hearing provided for in this chapter.

...(A) After receipt of the affidavit required by section 5123.71 of the Revised Code, the court shall cause written notice, by mail or otherwise, of any hearing the court directs, to be given to all of the following persons: (1) The respondent; (2) The respondent's legal guardian, if any; (3) The respondent's spouse, if address is known; (4) The person filing the affidavit; (5) Any one person designated...

...erson is a person with an intellectual disability subject to institutionalization by court order, the managing officer of an institution, with the concurrence of the chief program director, shall, except as provided in division (C) of this section, grant a discharge without the consent or the authorization of any court upon a determination that institutionalization no longer is appropriate. Upon the discharge, the m...

...(A) When the chief program director of an institution for persons with i ntellectual disabilities considers that it is in the best interest of a resident, the managing officer may permit the resident to leave the institution on a trial visit. The trial visit shall be for the period of time the managing officer determines. (B) The managing officer, upon releasing a resident on trial visit, may impose such requireme...

...If neither a discharged resident, nor a resident granted trial visit, nor the persons requesting the resident's trial visit or discharge are financially able to bear the expense of the resident's trial visit or discharge, the managing officer of an institution under the control of the department of developmental disabilities may then provide actual traveling and escort expenses to the township of which t...

...The managing officer of an institution under the control of the department of developmental disabilities shall immediately report the removal, death, absence without leave, discharge, or trial visit of any resident, or return of an absent without leave or visiting resident to the department, the probate judge of the county from which such resident was institutionalized, and the probate judge of the county of ...

...y or involuntarily, for a developmental disability. Any person in custody, voluntarily or involuntarily, under the provisions of this chapter, retains all rights not specifically denied the person under this or any other chapter of the Revised Code.

...All residents of institutions for persons with i ntellectual disabilities shall be allowed to communicate freely with others, including but not restricted to the following: (A) Receiving visitors at reasonable times; (B) Being visited by counsel or personal physician, or both, at any reasonable time; (C) Having reasonable access to telephones to make and receive confidential calls, including a reasonable number ...

...(A) All residents institutionalized pursuant to this chapter shall receive, within thirty days of their admission, a comprehensive evaluation, a diagnosis, a prognosis, and a description of habilitation goals consistent therewith. (B) All such residents shall have a written habilitation plan consistent with the comprehensive evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, and goals which shall be provided, upon request of residen...

...(A) No resident of an institution for persons with i ntellectual disabilities shall be compelled to perform labor that involves the operation, support, or maintenance of the institution or for which the institution is under contract with an outside organization. Privileges or release from the institution shall not be conditional upon the performance of such labor. Residents who volunteer to perform such labor shall...

...o longer a person with an intellectual disability subject to institutionalization by court order unless the person shows that the release procedures of division (H) of section 5123.76 of the Revised Code are inadequate or unavailable.

...The attorney general shall attend to all suits instituted on behalf of or against any public institution under the jurisdiction of the department of developmental disabilities and the managing officer thereof. If a writ of habeas corpus is applied for, the clerk of the court shall give notice of the time and place of hearing to the attorney general.

...All persons who are not subject to any criminal provisions and who act reasonable and in good faith, either upon actual knowledge or upon information reasonably thought by them to be reliable, shall be free from any liability to a person institutionalized in institutions for persons with i ntellectual disabilities or to any other person in their procedural or physical assistance administered in the course of the in...

...ging that a person has an intellectual disability and is subject to institutionalization by court order is filed, according to the provisions of section 5123.71 of the Revised Code, in the probate division of a county within the institutional district but not in the county within which the institution is located, and if such person is detained in the institution, the probate division of the county in which the inst...

...The probate judge, upon making an order institutionalizing a person under this chapter, shall forthwith transmit copies, under the judge's official seal, of court papers in the case, including the certificate of the expert witnesses, and of the judge's findings in the case to the managing officer of the institution for persons with intellectual disabilities. If not otherwise furnished, the probate judge shall see th...

...To the extent authorized by rules authorized by section 5162.021 of the Revised Code, the director of developmental disabilities shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as necessary to implement this chapter.

...(A) Subject to section 5124.072 of the Revised Code, an ICF/IID operator is eligible to enter into a provider agreement for an ICF/IID if all of the following apply: (1) The ICF/IID is certified by the director of health for participation in medicaid; (2) The ICF/IID is licensed by the director of developmental disabilities as a residential facility; (3) Subject to division (B) of this section, the operator a...

...(A) Every provider agreement with an ICF/IID provider shall do both of the following: (1) Except as provided by division (B) of this section, include any part of the ICF/IID that meets federal and state standards for medicaid certification; (2) Prohibit the provider from doing either of the following: (a) Discriminating against a resident on the basis of race, color, sex, creed, or national origin; (b) Subje...

...(A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section and divisions (C)(2) and (4) of section 5124.101 of the Revised Code, each ICF/IID provider shall file with the department of developmental disabilities an annual cost report for each of the provider's ICFs/IID for which the provider has a valid provider agreement. The cost report for a year shall cover the calendar year or portion of the calendar year during whi...

...(A) The provider of an ICF/IID in peer group 1, peer group 2, peer group 3, or peer group 4 that becomes a downsized ICF/IID or partially converted ICF/IID on or after July 1, 2013, or becomes a new ICF/IID on or after that date, may file with the department of developmental disabilities a cost report covering the period specified in division (B) of this section if the following applies to the ICF/IID: (1) In the c...

...The department of developmental disabilities shall do all of the following: (A) Prescribe the form to be used for completing a cost report and a uniform chart of accounts for the purpose of reporting costs on the form; (B) Distribute a paper copy of the form, or computer software for electronic submission of the form, to each provider at least sixty days before the date the cost report is due; (C) Establish ...

...The department of developmental disabilities shall develop an addendum to the cost report form that an ICF/IID provider may use to set forth costs that the provider believes the department may dispute. The department may consider such costs in determining an ICF/IID's medicaid payment rate. If the department does not consider such costs in determining an ICF/IID's medicaid payment rate, the provider may seek re...