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...ps, shall appoint, promote, reduce, suspend, lay off, discharge, or in any manner change the official rank or compensation of any officer or employee in the classified service, or promise or threaten to do so, or harass, discipline, or coerce any such officer or employee, for giving, withholding, or refusing to support any party.

...lds any public office, or who has been nominated for, or who seeks a nomination or appointment to any public office, shall corruptly use or promise to use, either directly or indirectly, any official authority or influence in order to secure or aid any person in securing for himself or another any office or employment in the classified service, or any promotion or increase of salary therein, as a reward for politica...

...r civil service township civil service commission according to this chapter, no person shall make an appointment to office or select a person for employment contrary to such rule, or willfully refuse or neglect to comply with or to conform to the sections of this chapter, or willfully violate any of the sections. If any person who is convicted of violating this section holds any public office or place of public emplo...

...the civil service rules in force at the times of such payments.

...ch the offense is alleged to have been committed. Prosecutions for violations of such sections and the rules and regulations of any municipal civil service commission by any officer or employee of such city, city school district, or city health district, shall be instituted by such municipal civil service commission through the legal department of the city or by such municipal civil service commission acting through ...

...of higher education" has the meaning given in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code.

...cle, motor vehicle with auxiliary equipment, or self-propelling equipment or trailers owned or to be operated by the state or a political subdivision, without reasonable cause to believe that the specific use or operation is one that is properly authorized. Whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars.

...ontractor of a state agency, board, or commission; (4) A contractor, employee, or prospective employee of a board of county commissioners or a county department of job and family services, child support enforcement agency, or public children services agency. (B) If an individual described in division (A) of this section has or, in the case of a prospective employee, will have access to or the use of federal tax i...

...h payroll deduction or otherwise twelve times the monthly premium computed at the existing average rate for the group life case for the amount of the employee's insurance thereunder at the time of the employee's layoff. The policyholder shall pay the premiums to the insurance company at the time of the next regular monthly premium payment for the actively insured employees and furnish the company appropriate data as ...

...vision (A) or (B) of this section, at a time that shall be determined by the department; (2) The health insuring corporations do not refuse to accept the employee, or the employee and the employee's family, if the employee exercises the option to select care provided by the corporations; (3) The employee may choose participation in only one of the plans sponsored by the department; (4) The director of health...

...The health care spending account fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The director of administrative services shall use money in the fund to make payments with regard to the participation of state employees in flexible spending accounts for certain nonreimbursed medical and dental expenses under section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code. All investment earnings on money in the fund shall be credited to ...

...The dependent care spending account fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The director of administrative services shall use money in the fund to make payments with regard to the participation of state employees in flexible spending accounts for work-related dependent care expenses under section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code. All investment earnings on money in the fund shall be credited to the fund.

...senate, and the chairs of the standing committees of the senate and house of representatives with primary responsibility for health and insurance legislation. A state employee who chooses the medical savings account option shall have any state health, medical, hospital, dental, surgical, and vision benefits for which the employee is eligible provided through the medical savings account. The department, under s...

...cable benefits that shall be withheld from benefits paid to a death benefit fund recipient under section 742.63 of the Revised Code and forwarded to the department. The amount withheld from the death benefit fund recipient shall be the percentage of the cost of those benefits that would be paid by a state employee. The board of trustees shall pay the department the remaining cost of those benefits plus any applicable...

...on of services, including annual or lifetime limits on the number of covered attempts to quit using tobacco; (3) Cost-sharing requirements; (4) Prior authorization requirements, step therapy protocols, or any other utilization management requirements, except that prior authorization may be required for either of the following: (a) Treatment that exceeds the duration recommended in the United States public healt...

...t of insurance, in accordance with the competitive selection procedures of Chapter 125. of the Revised Code, periodically contract with an insurance company for the issuance of a policy of disability and income protection pursuant to, and covering all state employees who are eligible under, section 124.385 of the Revised Code; (2) Provide disability and income protection pursuant to, and covering all state employees...

...d contract with one or more insurance companies or health insuring corporations authorized to operate or do business in this state for the purchase of a policy of long-term care insurance covering all state employees who are paid directly by warrant of the director of budget and management, including elected state officials. Any policy purchased under this division shall be negotiated and entered into in accor...

...itical subdivision. The contract may be entered into without competitive bidding. Any elected official or employee of a political subdivision may elect to participate in any long-term care insurance policy that the political subdivision purchases under this division. (C) Any long-term care insurance policy entered into under this section is subject to division (C) of section 124.84 of the Revised Code. (D) All or a...

...ver those costs. All money collected from such a charge shall be deposited to the credit of the fund, and all interest earned on the fund shall accrue to the fund. The director of administrative services shall administer the fund in accordance with the respective collective bargaining agreements and may adopt rules for the purpose of this administration.

...siders advisable. The department at any time may request the actuary to make any studies or evaluations to determine the adequacy of the rates of contribution, and those rates may be adjusted by the department, as recommended by the actuary, effective as of the first of any fiscal year thereafter.

...by an appropriate order of a court of competent jurisdiction granted after a showing of good cause. In determining good cause, the court shall weigh the public interest and the need for disclosure against injury to the person who is the subject of the record and to the employee assistance program. Upon granting such an order, the court shall, in determining the extent to which the disclosure of all or any part ...

...ssary for the municipal corporation to comply with any federal law or any rules adopted pursuant to federal law concerning discrimination in employment. (B) Any municipal corporation that has adopted the provisions of this chapter as part of its charter may, by a two-thirds vote of its legislative authority, waive, suspend, or alter any of the provisions of this chapter so adopted if such waiver, suspension, or alte...

...in each state agency's workforce at the time of the survey. Not later than December 31, 2020, and not later than the thirty-first day of December of each year thereafter, the director shall issue a report on the results of the surveys with the governor and the general assembly in accordance with section 101.68 of the Revised Code.

...ration that fails to provide notice in compliance with this division is deemed to have engaged in an unfair and deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance as defined in section 3901.21 of the Revised Code and is subject to sections 3901.19 to 3901.26 of the Revised Code.

...(A) Whoever violates section 124.62 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars or be imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

...im whether a compromise or payment-over-time agreement is in the best interests of the state under division (E) of section 131.02 of the Revised Code: (1) There exists a doubt as to whether the claim can be collected. (2) There exists a substantial probability that, upon payment of the claim and submission of a timely application for refund with respect to that payment, the commissioner would refund an amount that ...

... a single reporting period and of any penalty, interest, assessment, or other charge arising from such unpaid taxes. The commissioner shall not cancel any debt that has been certified to the attorney general under section 131.02 of the Revised Code or that is subject to an appeal filed with the board of tax appeals.

...ent of taxation shall devote his entire time to the duties of his office, and shall not hold any position of trust or profit or engage in any occupation, employment, or business interfering with or inconsistent with his duty as commissioner or an employee, or serve on or under any committee of any political party.

...id from the appropriation of the department of taxation. A schedule bond shall designate the name or position of each employee covered by the bond. The commissioner shall by rule provide for canceling, renewing, and increasing the bond authorized by this section.

...the department of taxation who fails to timely file an annual return required under section 5747.08 of the Revised Code for any taxable year during which the employee is employed by the department. The commissioner may condition employment or continued employment with the department upon timely compliance with any other requirement of the laws, rules, or ordinances of federal, state, or local taxing authorities and m...

...4.15 of the Revised Code for each day spent in the discharge of his official duties and shall be reimbursed for his actual and necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of such duties.

...n Columbus and shall provide suitable rooms, necessary office furniture, supplies, books, periodicals, and maps. All necessary expenses shall be audited and paid as are other expenses. The department may hold sessions at any place within the state. The department may establish as many branch offices in different parts of the state as are convenient for the purpose of administering the laws which the department is re...

...The department of taxation shall be open for the transaction of business during the business hours of every day, except Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays.

... registration plan to determine the authenticity of mileage figures derived from operational records and registrations. The tax commissioner may exchange with the proper officers of other member jurisdictions of the international registration plan information regarding the results of audits conducted on persons with vehicles registered under the international registration plan. The exchange of information under this...

...old or undertake may be held or undertaken by or before any one member of the board. All investigations, inquiries, hearings, and decisions of the board, and every order made by a member when approved and confirmed by the board and shown on its record of proceedings is deemed the order of the board.

...he rule. The appeal may be taken at any time after the rule is filed with the secretary of the state, the director of the legislative service commission, and, if applicable, the joint committee on agency rule review. Failure to file an appeal does not preclude any person from seeking any other remedy against the application of the rule to the person. The applications shall set forth, or have attached thereto an...

...cers shall be in the name of the department of taxation.

...The department of taxation shall adopt reasonable rules and regulations to govern its proceedings and to regulate the manner of all valuations of real or personal property, apportionments, investigations, inspections, and hearings not specifically provided for.

...may appoint by an order in writing an agent, a tax auditor agent, or a tax auditor agent manager, whose duties shall be prescribed in the order. In the discharge of such an agent's duties, the agent shall have every power of an inquisitorial nature granted by law to the commissioner and the same powers as a notary public as to the taking of depositions. All powers given by law to a notary public relative to depos...

...The tax commissioner and every agent provided for in section 5703.17 of the Revised Code may, for the purposes of the laws relating to taxation, administer oaths, certify to official acts, issue subpoenas, compel the attendance of witnesses, and the production of books, accounts, papers, records, documents, and testimony.

...d may examine under oath any officer, agent, or employee of that person or public utility. If such books, accounts, records, or memoranda are kept electronically or available in an electronic format, the person or public utility shall provide such records to the commissioner electronically or in an electronic format at the commissioner's request. Any person other than the commissioner who makes a demand pursuant to t...

...he production within this state, at the time and place the commissioner designates, of any books, accounts, papers, or records kept by that company, firm, corporation, person, association, partnership, limited liability company, or public utility in any office or place within or without the state, or verified copies in lieu of the books, accounts, papers, or records if the commissioner so orders, so that an examinati...

...sion shall thereafter be disqualified from acting as an officer or employee or in any other capacity under appointment or employment of the department. (B)(1) For purposes of an audit pursuant to section 117.15 of the Revised Code, or an audit of the department pursuant to Chapter 117. of the Revised Code, or an audit, pursuant to that chapter, the objective of which is to express an opinion on a financial report ...

...h of any of the databases of the department of taxation be tracked so that administrators of the database or investigators can identify each account holder who conducted a search of the database. (B) The rules adopted under division (A) of this section shall not require the tracking of any search of any of the databases of the department conducted by an account holder in any of the following circumstances: (1) Th...

...on of all testimony and records. The recommendations made by an agent shall be advisory only, and do not preclude the taking of further testimony if the department so orders, or further investigation.

...Upon the request of the department of taxation, the attorney general shall aid in any investigation, hearing, or trial had under the laws which the department is required to administer, shall institute and prosecute all necessary actions for the enforcement of such laws, and for the punishment of all violations thereof. The prosecuting attorney of any county shall, upon the request of the department and under the dir...

...tion which the commissioner requires to enable him to carry into effect the laws which he is required to administer, and shall make specific answers to all questions submitted by the commissioner. The answers to such questions shall be verified by the signature of such person or by the president, secretary, superintendent, general manager, principal accounting officer, partner, or agent, and returned to the commissi...

...luding accompanying schedules and statements, which are required by law to be filed with the department of taxation, the treasurer of state, a county auditor, or a county treasurer need not be sworn to. Any such return, claim, or report shall have printed on it the following statement, which shall be subscribed to by the person signing such return, claim, or report: "I declare under penalties of perjury that this ret...

...No person shall knowingly make, present, aid, or assist in the preparation or presentation of a false or fraudulent report, return, schedule, statement, claim, or document authorized or required by law to be filed with the department of taxation, the treasurer of state, a county auditor, a county treasurer, or a county clerk of courts, or knowingly procure, counsel, or advise the preparation or presentation of such r...

...s, interest, or other charges arising from unpaid taxes makes payment of the taxes, penalties, interest, or other charges with a dishonored instrument, an instrument that is determined to be nonnegotiable, or with any financial transaction device that is declined, returned, or dishonored, a penalty of fifty dollars shall be added to the amount due. The penalty imposed by this section shall be assessed and colle...