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...treatment system technology that is recommended for use by the sewage treatment system technical advisory committee created in section 3718.03 of the Revised Code.

...The environmental protection agency shall not require a board of health to enter into a memorandum of understanding or any other agreement with the agency regarding the issuance of national pollutant discharge elimination system permits for off-lot household sewage treatment systems. Rather, a representative of a board of health may meet with a person who intends to install such a system to determine the feasib...

...esearch, development, introduction, and timely approval of innovative and cost-effective sewage treatment systems and components of a system for use in this state, which shall include conducting pilot projects to assess the effectiveness of a system or components of a system. (G) The chairperson of the committee shall prepare and submit an annual report concerning the activities of the committee to the general ass...

...oval or disapproval within the required time, not later than one hundred twenty days after the submission of a complete application. If the director fails to approve or disapprove an application within the required time, the application shall be deemed approved. (C) In approving or disapproving an application, the director shall use the standards, guidelines, and protocols that the committee developed with the depa...

...turer of a sewage treatment system or component of a system the use of which has been authorized in rules adopted under section 3718.02 of the Revised Code may request from the director of health a written statement acknowledging that the system or component of a system is approved for use in this state and that the approval is equivalent in all respects to the approval of a system or component of a system und...

...are determined necessary to ascertain compliance with this chapter and rules adopted under it; (C) Review and approve or disapprove rules proposed by boards of health under division (B) of section 3718.02 of the Revised Code. The director shall not disapprove a proposed rule unless the director determines that the proposed rule conflicts with this chapter or rules adopted under division (A) of section 3718.02 o...

...lth shall use not more than ninety per cent of the proceeds from that fee for administering and enforcing this chapter and the rules adopted under it by the director. The director shall use not less than ten per cent of the proceeds from that fee to establish a program in cooperation with boards of health to fund installation and evaluation of sewage treatment system new technology pilot projects through grants...

...determine whether there is substantial compliance with the requirements of this chapter pertaining to health districts and the applicable rules adopted by the director under this chapter. Upon determining that there is substantial compliance, the director shall place the district on an approved list. The director may resurvey an approved district if it is determined by the director to be necessary and may remov...

...No person shall violate this chapter, any rule adopted or order issued under it, or any condition of a registration or permit issued under rules adopted under it.

...of the Revised Code. (B) The health commissioner or the commissioner's designated representative, without prior notice or hearing and in accordance with rules adopted by the director of health, may issue an emergency order requiring any action necessary to meet a public health emergency or to prevent or abate an imminent and substantial threat to surface water or ground water regarding domestic septage manag...

... relief upon a showing that the respondent named in the complaint is or was in violation of the chapter or rules, orders, or conditions. Upon finding that a person intentionally has violated this chapter, a rule adopted or order issued under it, or any condition of a registration or permit issued under rules adopted under it, the court may assess a civil penalty of not more than one hundred dollars for each ...

...person of the board shall designate the time and location for a hearing before the board. Members of the board shall serve without compensation. (4) A board of health shall send an appeal that has been filed with the board of health under division (B) of this section to the sewage treatment system appeals board immediately after the appeal has been filed. Not later than forty-five days after a hearing before a...

...eparate offense. All money collected from fines under this section shall be used to administer and enforce this chapter and rules adopted under it and shall be deposited as follows: (A) If the violation occurred within a health district that is approved under section 3718.07 of the Revised Code, the money shall be deposited to the credit of the district's special fund created under section 3718.06 of the Revi...

...1)(a) "Home" means an institution, residence, or facility that provides, for a period of more than twenty-four hours, whether for a consideration or not, accommodations to three or more unrelated individuals who are dependent upon the services of others, including a nursing home, residential care facility, home for the aging, and a veterans' home operated under Chapter 5907. of the Revised Code. (b) "Home" also me...

...de other skilled nursing care on a part-time, intermittent basis for not more than a total of one hundred twenty days in a twelve-month period; (3) Provide skilled nursing care for more than one hundred twenty days in a twelve-month period to a resident when the requirements of division (D) of this section are met. A residential care facility may not admit or retain an individual requiring skilled nursing care th...

...A residential care facility may enter into a risk agreement with a resident or the resident's sponsor. Under a risk agreement, the resident or sponsor and the facility agree to share responsibility for making and implementing decisions affecting the scope and quantity of services provided by the facility to the resident. The facility also agrees to identify the risks inherent in a decision made by a resident or spons...

... The director may inspect a home at any time. The director may enter at any time, for the purposes of investigation, any institution, residence, facility, or other structure that has been reported to the director or that the director has reasonable cause to believe is operating as a nursing home, residential care facility, or home for the aging without a valid license required by section 3721.05 of the Revised Code o...

...d each county home and district home licensed as a residential care facility shall have available in the home for review by prospective patients and residents, their guardians, or other persons assisting in their placement, each inspection report completed pursuant to section 3721.02 of the Revised Code and each statement of deficiencies and plan of correction completed and made available to the public under Titles X...

...88 and cause the facility to be in noncompliance as defined in 42 C.F.R. 488.301. The first review shall be conducted by an employee of the department who did not participate in and was not otherwise involved in any way with the survey. A facility that is not satisfied with the results of a first review may receive a second review on payment of a fee to the department. The amount of the fee shall be specified ...

...Where a nursing home licensed under this Chapter is operated in a building that was leased pursuant to a written lease agreement entered into on or before January 1, 1970, and where the lease agreement does not expressly determine or state the identity of the party that owns the nursing home business, operating rights, certificate of need, or legal rights associated with ownership and operation of the nursing home be...

...or any funds appropriated for nursing home licensure.

...f residents. The director may waive the time requirements specified in division (A)(1) of this section in an emergency, such as the death of the operator. The change of operator license application established under this section shall include all of the following: (a) Disclosure of all direct and indirect owners owning at least five per cent of each of the following: (i) The entering operator, if the entering...

...e department of aging, any unresolved complaint that the office of the state long-term care ombudsman has investigated and found to be valid and refers to the department of health. This requirement does not supersede federal requirements for survey agency complaint investigations.

...ed Code and may issue orders to secure compliance with the provisions of these sections and the rules adopted under them. The director may hold hearings, issue subpoenas, compel testimony, and make adjudications. The director may issue an order revoking a license in the event the director finds, upon hearing or opportunity afforded pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, that any of the following apply to a pe...

... as necessary for the administration or enforcement of any statute relating to homes, or as provided in division (C) of this section, the director and any employee of the department of health shall not release any of the following information without the permission of the individual or of the individual's legal representative: (a) The identity of any patient or resident; (b) The identity of any individual who submi...