Ohio Revised Code Search

...(A) As used in this section, "board of health" means a board of health of a city or general health district or the authority having the duties of a board of health under section 3709.05 of the Revised Code. (B) A board of health that has, through a physician serving as the board's health commissioner or medical director, established a protocol that meets the requirements specified by the state board of pharmacy in ...

...77 of the Revised Code: (A) "Board of health" means a board of health of a city or general health district or the authority having the duties of a board of health under section 3709.05 of the Revised Code. (B) "Fetal death" means death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of human conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, which after such expulsion or extraction ...

...(A) A board of health may, in accordance with rules adopted under section 3701.049 of the Revised Code, establish and operate a fetal-infant mortality review board to review both of the following: (1) Each fetal death experienced by a woman who was, at the time of the fetal death, a resident of the health district in which the board exercises authority; (2) Each death of an infant who was, at the time of death, a...

...(A)(1) If a board of health establishes a fetal-infant mortality review board under section 3707.71 of the Revised Code, the board, by a majority vote of a quorum of its members, shall select the board's members. Members may include the following professionals or individuals representing the following constituencies: (a) Fetal-infant mortality review coordinators; (b) Physicians who are board-certified in obste...

... resources that support and promote the health and well-being of women, infants, and families; (B) Recommending and developing plans for implementing local service and program changes, as well as changes to the groups, professions, agencies, and entities that serve families, children, and pregnant women; (C) Providing the department of health with aggregate data, trends, and patterns regarding fetal and infant de...

...sts. These records may include maternal health records. In addition, such an individual or entity may make available to the board additional information, documents, or reports that could be useful to the board's investigation. (B) No person, entity, law enforcement agency, or prosecuting attorney shall provide any information regarding a fetal death or death of an infant to a fetal-infant mortality review board whi...

...itted by the board to the department of health or a national infant death review database, other than the report prepared pursuant to section 3707.77 of the Revised Code, are confidential. Such materials shall be used by the board and department of health only in the exercise of the proper functions of the review board and the department. If the materials are presented to the board or a person abstracting the mater...

...(A) An individual or public or private entity providing records, documents, reports, or other information to a fetal-infant mortality review board is immune from any civil liability for injury, death, or loss to person or property that otherwise might be incurred or imposed as a result of providing the records, documents, reports, or information to the board. (B) Each board member is immune from any civil liability...

...atabase maintained by the department of health or the national infant death review database individual data pertaining to each fetal or infant death reviewed in that board's jurisdiction within the twelve months immediately before the submission. The specific data to be submitted, as well as other information the board considers relevant to a review, shall be specified by the director of health in rules adopted under...

...(A) Whoever violates section 3707.03 of the Revised Code, unless good and sufficient reason therefor is shown, is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. (B) Whoever violates division (B) of section 3707.06 or section 3707.48 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on each subsequent offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.

...The state shall be divided into health districts. Each city constitutes a city health district. The townships and villages in each county shall be combined into a general health district. As provided for in sections 3709.051, 3709.07, and 3709.10 of the Revised Code, there may be a union of two or more general health districts, a union of two or more city health districts to form a single city health district, or a...

...A board of health of a city or general health district or the authority having the duties of a board of health under section 3709.05 of the Revised Code may select the titles it uses to refer to itself, the health district it represents, or any health facility or other entity it operates. The titles may include any terms selected by the board or authority, including the term "public health."

...usand that is represented by a board of health of a city health district shall complete a study examining the efficiency and effectiveness of the city health district merging with the general health district of the county in which the city is located. As part of the study, the city shall compare the merger's efficiency and effectiveness with that of remaining as a separate health district. (B) The director of heal...

...(A) In each general health district there shall be a board of health consisting of five members to be appointed as provided in sections 3709.03 and 3709.41 of the Revised Code. The term of office of the members shall be five years from the date of appointment, except that of those first appointed one shall serve for five years, one for four years, one for three years, one for two years, and one for one year, and the...

...There is hereby created in each general health district a district advisory council. A council shall consist of the president of the board of county commissioners, the chief executive of each municipal corporation not constituting a city health district, and the chairperson of the board of township trustees of each township. The board of county commissioners, the legislative body of a municipal corporation, and the ...

...If in any general health district the district advisory council fails to meet or to select a board of health, the director of health may appoint a board of health for such district which shall have and exercise all powers conferred on a board of health of a general health district.

...(A) Unless an administration of public health different from that specifically provided in this section is established and maintained under authority of its charter, or unless a combined city health district is formed under section 3709.051 of the Revised Code, the legislative authority of each city constituting a city health district shall establish a board of health. The board of health shall be composed of five me...

...Two or more city health districts may be united to form a single city health district by a majority affirmative vote of the legislative authority of each city affected by the union. If at least three per cent of the qualified electors residing within each of two or more city health districts sign a petition proposing a union into a single city health district, an election shall be held as provided in this sec...

...ectors of each city constituting a city health district have voted affirmatively, the chief executives of the cities affected shall enter into a contract for the administration of public health affairs in the combined district. Such contract shall state the proportion of expenses of the board of health or health department of the combined district to be paid by each city. Unless the proposal establishing the district...

...If any city constituting a city health district fails to establish a board of health under section 3709.05 of the Revised Code, the director of health may appoint a health commissioner for such city, and fix the commissioner's salary and term of office. Such commissioner shall have the same powers and perform the duties granted to or imposed upon a board of health of a city health district, except that rules, regulat...

...en it is proposed that one or more city health districts unite with a general health district in the formation of a single district, the district advisory council of the general health district shall meet and vote on the question of union. It shall require a majority affirmative vote of the members of the district advisory council to carry the question. The legislative authority of each city constituting a city healt...

...esiding within each of one or more city health districts and a general health district sign a petition for union into a single general health district, an election shall be held as provided in this section to determine whether a single general health district shall be formed. The petition for union may specify regarding the board of health of the new district: (A) The qualifications for membership; (B) The te...

...(A) A board of health of a city or general health district or the authority having the duties of a board of health under section 3709.05 of the Revised Code may enter into a contract to provide some or all public health services for a board of health of another city or general health district. (B) Each contract entered under division (A) of this section shall do all of the following: (1) State the amount of ...

...(A) The board of health of a city or general health district may, by rule, establish a uniform system of fees to pay the costs of any services provided by the board. The fee for issuance of a certified copy of a vital record or a certification of birth shall not be less than the fee prescribed for the same service under division (A)(1) of section 3705.24 of the Revised Code and shall include the fees required ...

...a fee as required by rule of a board of health of a city or general health district pursuant to section 3709.09 of the Revised Code for an operation permit for, or for inspection of, a household sewage treatment system or a small flow on-site sewage treatment system located on the real property, the health commissioner of the city or general health district or the commissioner's designated representative shall notif...