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...Each year for twenty-three successive years after the commencement of a joint vocational school district's project under sections 3318.40 to 3318.45 of the Revised Code, the board of education of that school district shall deposit into a separate maintenance account or into the school district's capital and maintenance fund established under section 3315.18 of the Revised Code, school district moneys dedicated to mai...

...(A) A joint vocational school district board of education may generate the school district's portion of the basic project cost of its project under sections 3318.40 to 3318.45 of the Revised Code using any combination of the following means if lawfully employed for the acquisition of classroom facilities: (1) The issuance of securities in accordance with Chapter 133. and section 3311.20 of the Revised Code; (...

...(A) Unless division (B) of section 3318.44 of the Revised Code applies, if a joint vocational school district board of education proposes to issue securities to generate all or part of the school district's portion of the basic project cost of the school district's project under sections 3318.40 to 3318.45 of the Revised Code, the school district board shall adopt a resolution in accordance with Chapter 133. and sect...

...By rule adopted in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code, the Ohio facilities construction commission shall establish a program whereby the board of education of any joint vocational school district may enter into an agreement with the commission under which the board may proceed with the new construction or major repairs of a part of the school district's classroom facilities needs, as determined under ...

...(A) On the effective date of this section, the director of budget and management shall transfer any amount on hand in the fund established under former section 3318.47 of the Revised Code, as that section existed prior to the effective date of this section, into the fund established under section 3318.15 of the Revised Code. (B) On or after the effective date of this section, any amounts received from s...

...(A) When all of the following have occurred, a project undertaken by a school district pursuant to this chapter shall be considered complete and the Ohio facilities construction commission shall issue a certificate of completion to the district board of education: (1) All facilities to be constructed under the project, as specified in the project agreement entered into under section 3318.08 of the Revised Code, hav...

...(A) The corrective action program is hereby established to provide funding for the correction of work, in connection with a project funded under sections 3318.01 to 3318.20 or sections 3318.40 to 3318.45 of the Revised Code, that is found after occupancy of the facility to be defective or to have been omitted. (B) The Ohio facilities construction commission may provide funding under this section only if the school d...

...(A) As used in this section and section 3318.61 of the Revised Code: (1) "Acquisition of classroom facilities" means constructing, reconstructing, repairing, or making additions to classroom facilities. (2) "Ohio facilities construction commission" and "classroom facilities" have the same meanings as in section 3318.01 of the Revised Code. (B) There is hereby established the college-preparatory boarding school fac...

...(A) In lieu of participating in the college-preparatory boarding school facilities program under section 3318.60 of the Revised Code, if the board of trustees of a college-preparatory boarding school established under Chapter 3328. of the Revised Code has leased, purchased, or otherwise acquired a site for the school, the board of trustees may request approval from the Ohio facilities construction commission for the ...

...ties to be used for only an alternative public purpose, including, but not limited to, primary, secondary, vocational, or higher education services. (B) If the school ceases its operations due to either the failure of the school's operator to comply with any of the requirements of the contract prescribed under section 3328.12 of the Revised Code or the default by the school's board of trustees on an underlying lease...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Acquisition of classroom facilities" has the same meaning as in section 3318.40 of the Revised Code. (2) "Classroom facilities" has the same meaning as in section 3318.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "STEM school" means a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics school established under Chapter 3326. of the Revised Code that is not governed by a single school district boar...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Acquisition of classroom facilities" has the same meaning as in section 3318.40 of the Revised Code. (2) "Classroom facilities" has the same meaning as in section 3318.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "Qualifying partnership" means a group of city, exempted village, or local school districts that are part of a career-technical education compact and have entered into an agreement for jo...

... uniform plan affecting salaries of all employees of the district, and shall execute a written contract of employment with such superintendent. Each board shall adopt procedures for the evaluation of its superintendent and shall evaluate its superintendent in accordance with those procedures. An evaluation based upon such procedures shall be considered by the board in deciding whether to renew t...

...If a board of education determines the superintendent is incapacitated in such a manner that he is unable to perform the duties of the office of superintendent, the board may, by a majority vote of the members of the board, appoint a person to serve in his place pro tempore. Each board of education shall adopt a written policy establishing standards for determining whether the superintendent is incapacitated, and sha...

...in division (A)(2) of this section, any employee in a position for which a board of education requires a license designated by rule of the state board of education for being an administrator issued under section 3319.22 of the Revised Code, including a professional pupil services employee or administrative specialist or an equivalent of either one who is not employed as a school counselor and spends less than fifty p...

...The board of education of each city, exempted village, and local school district may create the position of business manager. The board shall appoint such business manager who shall serve pursuant to a contract in accordance with section 3319.02 of the Revised Code. In the discharge of all official duties, the business manager may be directly responsible to the board, or to the superintendent of schools, as the b...

....04 of the Revised Code to one or more employees or officers of the board, including the treasurer, and may give the employees or officers any title recognizing the assignment of the powers and duties. The prohibition, in section 3319.04 of the Revised Code, against a business manager having possession of moneys does not prevent a board from assigning powers and duties specified in that section to the treasure...

...nfirmation by the board, noneducational employees, except as provided in division (B) of section 3313.31 of the Revised Code; and shall prepare and execute all contracts necessary in carrying out this section.

...The business manager shall receive such compensation as is fixed by the board of education before election, which shall not be decreased during the business manager's term of office. Except as otherwise provided in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, the business manager shall give such bond as prescribed by the board for the faithful discharge of official duties.

...on is part of a uniform plan affecting employees of the entire district. The term of the initial contract shall not exceed three years. Any renewal of the contract shall be for a term of not less than two years and not more than five years. The internal auditor shall be directly responsible to the board for the performance of all duties outlined in the contract. If the board does not intend to renew the contra...

...trict shall employ the teachers of the public schools of their respective districts. The governing board of each educational service center may employ special instruction teachers, special education teachers, and teachers of academic courses in which there are too few students in each of the school districts entering into agreements pursuant to section 3313.843 of the Revised Code to warrant each district's ...

...The board of education of any school district may, by resolution, establish a professional development program for teachers in accordance with which it may reimburse teachers employed by the district for all or any part of the cost incurred by the teacher in the successful completion of a course or training program in which the teacher enrolled as part of the development program. The terms and conditions for pa...

...Each teacher employed by the board of education of a school district or a governing board of an educational service center shall be granted at least thirty minutes for lunch each school day, during which time the teacher shall not be required to perform any school activity; except that in a one-teacher school where enforcement of the foregoing provisions may work a hardship, the governing board of the service center ...

...hat division for middle and high school employees. The board shall develop its own curricula for these purposes. (D) Each board shall incorporate training in youth suicide awareness and prevention into the in-service training required by division (A) of this section for each person employed by a school district or service center to work in a school as a nurse, teacher, counselor, school psychologist, or administra...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Core subject area" means reading and English language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, foreign language, and fine arts. (2) "Properly certified or licensed teacher" means a classroom teacher who has successfully completed all requirements for certification or licensure under this chapter applicable to the subject areas and grade levels in which the teacher provides i...

...The department of children and youth shall enforce sections 2151.39, 5103.15, and 5103.16 of the Revised Code.

...ld may enter into an agreement with any public children services agency or private child placing agency, whereby the child is placed without the approval of the juvenile court in the temporary custody of the agency for a period of time of up to thirty days, except that an agreement for temporary custody can be for a period of time of up to sixty days without court approval if the agreement is executed solely for the ...

...approving the parent's agreement with a public children services agency or private child placing agency under division (B)(1) of section 5103.15 of the Revised Code: (1) Appear personally before the court; (2) Sign the component of the form prescribed under division (A)(1)(a) of section 3107.083 of the Revised Code; (3) Check either the "yes" or "no" space provided on the component of the form prescribed und...

...ot less than seventy-two hours before a public children services agency or private child placing agency enters into an agreement with a parent under division (B) of section 5103.15 of the Revised Code, an assessor shall meet in person with the parent and do both of the following: (A) Provide the parent with a copy of the written materials about adoption prepared by the department of children and youth under divisi...

...(A)(1) A juvenile court shall conduct a review hearing of an agreement the court approves under division (B)(1) of section 5103.15 of the Revised Code once every seven months after the agreement is entered into if a final decree or interlocutory order of adoption for the child who is the subject of the agreement has not been issued or become final and the agreement is still in effect. (2) A juvenile court shall con...

...As used in this section, "children with special needs" has the same meaning as in rules adopted under section 5153.163 of the Revised Code. If the department of children and youth determines that money in the putative father registry fund created under section 2101.16 of the Revised Code is more than is needed to perform its duties related to the putative father registry, the department may use surplus moneys in t...

...ult. A consent given as above before an employee of a children services agency that is licensed as provided by law, is equally effective, if the consent also is accompanied by an affidavit executed by the witnessing employee or employees to the effect that the legal rights of the parents have been fully explained to the parents, prior to the execution of any consent, and that the action was done after the birth of th...

.... If a private child placing agency or public children services agency has placed a child in a foster home or with a relative of the child, other than a parent of the child, the agency shall notify the child's foster caregiver or relative if the agency seeks permanent custody of the child, or, if the agency already has permanent custody of the child, seeks to place the child for adoption. The notice also shall infor...

...chment, and social activities. (2) A public children services agency, private child placing agency, or private noncustodial agency that serves as the child's custodian or as the supervising agency for the resource caregiver shall be immune from liability in a civil action to recover damages for injury, death, or loss to person or property that result from a resource caregiver's or agency's decisions using a reason...

...(A) The department of children and youth shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to establish and enforce a resource family bill of rights for resource families providing care for individuals who are in the custody or care and placement of an agency that provides Title IV-E reimbursable services pursuant to sections 5103.03 to 5103.181 of the Revised Code. (B) If the rights of the res...

...ection 5103.03 of the Revised Code or a public children services agency, shall advertise that the person or government entity will adopt children or place them in foster homes, hold out inducements to parents to part with their offspring or in any manner knowingly become a party to the separation of a child from the child's parents or guardians, except through a juvenile court or probate court commitment. (C) The ...

...ld is subject and in regards to which a public children services agency has done one of the following: (a) Determined that abuse or neglect occurred; (b) Initiated an investigation, and the investigation is ongoing; (c) Initiated an investigation, and the agency was unable to determine whether abuse or neglect occurred. (2) The summary report required under division (A) of this section shall not contain a...

...rtment of justice national sex offender public web site regarding the prospective or current foster caregiver and all persons eighteen years of age or older who reside with the prospective or current foster caregiver. Certification may be denied based solely on the results of the search. (B) The director of children and youth shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code necessary for the i...

...ate Commission's staff director and its employees shall be immune from suit and liability, either personally or in their official capacity, for a claim for damage to or loss of property or personal injury or other civil liability caused or arising out of or relating to an actual or alleged act, error, or omission that occurred, or that such person had a reasonable basis for believing occurred within the scope of Comm...

...The department of children and youth may adopt rules necessary for the implementation of section 5103.20 of the Revised Code.

...As used in division (B) of Article VIII of section 5103.20 of the Revised Code, "state human services administration" means the department of children and youth.

...aused to be sent or brought, whether by public authorities or private persons or agencies, and whether for placement with state or local public authorities or for placement with private agencies or persons. (D) "Placement" means the arrangement for the care of a child in a family free or boarding home, or in a child-caring agency or institution but does not include any institution caring for the mentally ill, men...

...Financial responsibility for any child placed pursuant to the provisions of the interstate compact on the placement of children shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of Article V of section 5103.23 of the Revised Code. However, in the event of parental or complete default of performance thereunder, the provisions of laws fixing responsibility for the support of children also may be invoked.

...The "appropriate public authorities" as used in Article III of section 5103.20 of the Revised Code means the department of children and youth and that department shall receive and act with reference to notices required by said Article III.

...As used in paragraph (A) of Article V of the interstate compact on the placement of children, the phrase "appropriate authority in the receiving state" with reference to this state shall mean the department of children and youth.

...The officers and agencies of this state and its subdivisions having authority to place children are hereby empowered to enter into agreements with appropriate officers or agencies of or in other party states pursuant to paragraph (B) of Article V of the interstate compact on the placement of children. Any such agreement which contains a financial commitment or imposes a financial obligation on this state is sub...

...Any requirements for visitation, inspection, or supervision of children, homes, institutions, or other agencies in another party state which may apply under Chapter 5103. of the Revised Code shall be deemed to be met if performed pursuant to an agreement entered into by appropriate officers or agencies of this state or a subdivision thereof as contemplated by paragraph (B) of Article V of the interstate compact...

...Any court having jurisdiction to place delinquent children may place such a child in an institution in another state pursuant to Article VI of the interstate compact on the placement of children and shall retain jurisdiction as provided in Article V thereof.

...As used in Article VII of the interstate compact on the placement of children, the term "executive head" means the governor. The Governor is hereby authorized to appoint a compact administrator in accordance with the terms of said Article VII.

...The Ohio child welfare training program is hereby established in the department of children and youth as a statewide program. The program shall provide all of the following: (A) The training that section 3107.014 of the Revised Code requires an assessor to complete; (B) The preplacement training that sections 5103.031 and 5103.033 of the Revised Code require a prospective foster caregiver to complete; (C) Th...