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...(A) Persons, including, but not limited to, boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services and community mental health services providers, acting in good faith, either upon actual knowledge or information thought by them to be reliable, who procedurally or physically assist in the hospitalization or discharge, determination of appropriate placement, court-ordered treatment, or in judicial proceed...

...The director of developmental disabilities may require the performance of duties by the officers of the institutions under the jurisdiction of the department of developmental disabilities so as fully to meet the requirements, intents, and purposes of this chapter. In case of an apparent conflict between the powers conferred upon any managing officer and those conferred by this chapter upon the department, the ...

...Subject to the rules of the department of developmental disabilities, each institution under the jurisdiction of the department shall be under the control of a managing officer to be known as a superintendent or by other appropriate title. The managing officer shall be appointed by the director of developmental disabilities and shall be in the unclassified service and serve at the pleasure of the director. Eac...

...(A) As used in this section, "felony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Subject to division (C) of this section, upon the recommendation of the director of developmental disabilities, the managing officer of an institution under the jurisdiction of the department of developmental disabilities may designate one or more employees to be special police officers of the depart...

...(A) As used in sections 5123.19 to 5123.20 of the Revised Code: (1) "Independent living arrangement" means an arrangement in which an individual with a developmental disability resides in an individualized setting chosen by the individual or the individual's guardian, which is not dedicated principally to the provision of residential services for individuals with developmental disabilities, and for which no financ...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, if an individual is committed to a state-operated ICF/IID pursuant to sections 5123.71 to 5123.76 of the Revised Code, the county board of developmental disabilities of the county from which the individual was ordered institutionalized is responsible for the nonfederal share of medicaid expenditures for the individual's care in the state-operated ICF/IID. The de...

...(A) The department of developmental disabilities shall establish a registry of developmental disabilities employees consisting of the names of individuals included in the registry pursuant to section 5123.51 of the Revised Code. (B) Before a person or government entity hires, contracts with, or employs an individual as a developmental disabilities employee, the person or government entity shall inquire whether the i...

...(A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, any person in the community who is eighteen years of age or older and who is or believes self to be a person with an intellectual disability may make written application to the managing officer of any institution for temporary admission for short-term care. The application may be made on behalf of a minor by a parent or guardian, and on behalf of an adult adjudi...

...(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...

...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 ...

...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...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Addition" means an increase in an ICF/IID's square footage. (B) "Affiliated operator" means an operator affiliated with either of the following: (1) The exiting operator for whom the affiliated operator is to assume liability for the entire amount of the exiting operator's debt under the medicaid program or the portion of the debt that represents the franchise permit fee the exi...

...(A) This section does not apply to any of the following: (1) An ICF/IID to which both of the following apply: (a) On or before January 1, 2015, the ICF/IID became a downsized ICF/IID or partially converted ICF/IID. (b) On January 1, 2015, the ICF/IID's medicaid-certified capacity was at least twenty per cent less than the greatest medicaid-certified capacity it had before it became a downsized ICF/IID or par...

...Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, an ICF/IID operator shall not reserve or convert any portion of the ICF/IID's beds from providing ICF/IID services to providing services to individuals receiving services through the Ohio resilience through integrated systems and excellence (OhioRISE) program for children and youth involved in multiple state systems or children and youth with other co...

...As used in this section and sections 5126.21 to 5126.25 of the Revised Code: (A) "Service employee" means a person employed by a county board of developmental disabilities in a position which may require registration under section 5126.25 of the Revised Code but for which a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university is not required, and includes employees in the positions listed in division (C...

...(A) Whenever a child committed to the department of youth services is unable to benefit from the programs conducted by the department, as found under division (B) of this section, the department forthwith shall release or discharge such child from its jurisdiction and either return the child to the committing court, provided that such court so consents or directs, or otherwise secure for the child an environment more...

...(A)(1) The office of victims' services is hereby created within the release authority of the department of youth services. The office of victims' services shall provide assistance to victims, victims' representatives, and members of a victim's family. The assistance shall include, but shall not be limited to, all of the following: (a) If the court has provided the name and address of the victims of the child's acts ...

...In counties which have secured property and completed arrangements for the working of their convicts, the board of county commissioners, whenever practicable, shall cause to be worked as provided in sections 5147.01 to 5147.26, inclusive, of the Revised Code, all convicts sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor, and also all male convicts, physically capable of performing hard labor, confined in the county jail or wo...

...Except for prisoners participating in a county jail industry program established under section 5147.30 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners, or officer in charge of any workhouse or jail, shall place to the credit of each prisoner the amount of the prisoner's earnings that the board or officer considers equitable and just, taking into consideration the character of the prisoner, the nature of the cr...

...(A) A prisoner participating in a work-release program shall surrender his earnings, less standard payroll deductions required by law, to a person designated by the court which has established the work-release program. (B) The person designated by the court to collect the earnings of the prisoner shall maintain complete and accurate records as to all prisoners employed in a work-release program with respect to all m...

...(A) The adult parole authority shall administer Chapter 5149. and the provisions of Chapter 2967., Chapter 2971., and sections 2301.27 to 2301.32, 2941.46, 2951.06, and 2951.08 of the Revised Code that impose duties upon the authority. The authority may enter into a written agreement with a person or government entity to share information, personnel, and services for one or more of the following purposes: training...

...The "interstate compact for adult offender supervision" is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining in that compact in the form substantially as follows: "INTERSTATE COMPACT FOR ADULT OFFENDER SUPERVISION ARTICLE I PURPOSE The compacting states to this interstate compact recognize that each state is responsible for the supervision of adult offenders in the community wh...

...Any corporation, organized under the laws of this state for the purpose of establishing, conducting, and maintaining a child welfare institution or agency, which is unable, for any reason, to conduct and maintain such institution or agency, and which has not, for a period of three consecutive years, conducted or maintained a place or establishment for the care of children, and which has in its hands funds or properti...

...Each county in the district, organized under section 5153.36 of the Revised Code, shall be entitled to one trustee, and in districts composed of but two counties, each county shall be entitled to not less than two trustees. The county in which a district children's home is located shall have not less than two trustees, who, in the interim period between the regular meetings of the board of trustees, shall act as an e...

...(A) The board of county commissioners or operator shall do either of the following: (1) Appoint a superintendent or administrator of the county home; (2) In accordance with section 5155.012 of the Revised Code, enter into a contract with a public or private entity that agrees to select a superintendent or administrator with the advice and consent of the board. (B) The superintendent or administrator may reside on ...