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...The director of developmental disabilities shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to do both of the following: (A) Define "developmental delay"; (B) For the purpose of division (Q)(4)(c) of section 5123.01 and division (F)(4)(c) of section 5126.01 of the Revised Code, specify how to determine whether a person six years of age or older has a substantial functional limitation in a...

...(A) As used in this section, "preschool child with a disability" has the same meaning as in section 3323.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, the department of developmental disabilities shall make eligibility determinations in accordance with the definition of "developmental disability" contained in section 5123.01 of the Revised Code. The department may adopt rules in acc...

...The provisions of this chapter regarding institutionalization apply to a person who is found incompetent to stand trial or not guilty by reason of insanity and is committed pursuant to section 2945.39, 2945.40, 2945.401, or 2945.402 of the Revised Code to the extent that the provisions are not in conflict with any provision of sections 2945.37 to 2945.402 of the Revised Code. If a provision of this chapte...

...Whenever the department or director of mental retardation and developmental disabilities is referred to or designated in any statute, rule, contract, grant, or other document, the reference or designation is deemed to refer to the department or director of developmental disabilities, as the case may be. Whenever "mental retardation" or any derivation of that term is referred to or designated in any statute, rule, c...

...The department of developmental disabilities shall do the following: (A) Promote comprehensive statewide programs and services for persons with developmental disabilities and their families wherever they reside in the state. These programs shall include public awareness, prevention, assessment, treatment, training, and care. (B) Provide administrative leadership for statewide services; (C) Develop and mainta...

...the institutional and noninstitutional alternatives covered under the state plan for medical assistance; (b) Offer the resident the choice of remaining in the nursing facility or receiving covered services in an alternative institutional or noninstitutional setting; (c) Clarify the effect on eligibility for services under the state plan for medical assistance if the resident chooses to leave the facility, inc...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Community employment" means competitive employment that takes place in an integrated setting. (2) "Competitive employment" means full-time or part-time work in the competitive labor market in which payment is at or above the minimum wage but not less than the customary wage and level of benefits paid by the employer for the same or similar work performed by persons who are not ...

...(A) The director of developmental disabilities shall establish an employment first task force consisting of the departments of developmental disabilities, education and workforce, medicaid, job and family services, and mental health and addiction services; and the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency. The purpose of the task force shall be to improve the coordination of the state's efforts to address th...

...It is hereby declared to be the policy of this state that individuals with developmental disabilities shall have access to innovative technology solutions. Technology can ensure that people with developmental disabilities have increased opportunities to live, work, and thrive in their homes, communities, and places of employment through state of the art planning, innovative technology, and supports that focus on thei...

...(A) The director of developmental disabilities shall establish a technology first task force consisting of representatives from the office of innovateohio; the departments of developmental disabilities, education and workforce, medicaid, aging, job and family services, mental health and addiction services, children and youth, and transportation; and the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency. (B) The t...

...(A) The department of developmental disabilities shall do all of the following: (1) Maintain, operate, manage, and govern all state institutions for the care, treatment, and training of persons with i ntellectual disabilities; (2) Designate all such institutions by appropriate names; (3) Provide and designate facilities for the custody, care, and special treatment of persons of the following classes: (a) Danger...

...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 ...

...the closure on the local economy; (11) Alternatives and opportunities for consolidation with other facilities; (12) How the closing of a facility identified for closure relates to the department's plans for the future of developmental centers in this state; (13) The effect of the closure of developmental centers in general upon the state's fiscal resources and fiscal status and, if the governor's notice ident...

...The program fee fund is hereby created in the state treasury. All fees collected pursuant to sections 5123.161, 5123.164, and 5123.19 of the Revised Code shall be credited to the fund. Money credited to the fund shall be used solely for the department of developmental disabilities' duties under sections 5123.16 to 5123.1611 and 5123.19 of the Revised Code and to provide continuing education and professional training ...

...(A) As used in this section, "developmental center" has the same meaning as in section 5123.032 of the Revised Code. (B) A developmental center of the department of developmental disabilities may provide services to both of the following: (1) Individuals with developmental disabilities who reside in the community in which the developmental center is located; (2) Providers who provide services to individuals wit...

...(A) The director of developmental disabilities is the executive head of the department of developmental disabilities. All duties conferred on the department and its institutions by law or by order of the director shall be performed under such rules as the director prescribes, and shall be under the director's control. The director shall establish bylaws for the government of all institutions under the jurisdiction of...

...Except as provided in section 5123.197 of the Revised Code, each person or government entity seeking to develop new or modify existing residential services shall submit to the department of developmental disabilities a plan for the development or modification. The department shall approve a plan that is submitted in accordance with rules adopted under this section and meets the uniform standards for plans estab...

...(A) The director of developmental disabilities shall adopt rules establishing procedures for administrative resolution of complaints filed under division (B) of this section and section 5126.06 of the Revised Code. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, any person or county board of developmental disabilities th...

...The department of developmental disabilities shall determine whether county boards of developmental disabilities violate the rights that individuals with developmental disabilities have under section 5126.046 of the Revised Code to obtain home and community-based services, ICF/IID services, nonmedicaid residential services, or nonmedicaid supported living from qualified and willing providers. The department shall pro...

...No person or government entity shall receive payment for providing home and community-based services unless the person or government entity is one of the following: (A) Certified under section 5123.161 of the Revised Code; (B) Licensed as a residential facility under section 5123.19 of the Revised Code.

...The department of developmental disabilities shall pay the nonfederal share of medicaid expenditures for medicaid case management services and home and community-based services for which no county board of developmental disabilities is required by section 5126.059 or 5126.0510 of the Revised Code to pay.

...The director of developmental disabilities may enter into an agreement with a county board of developmental disabilities under which the department of developmental disabilities is to pay the nonfederal share of medicaid expenditures for one or more of the home and community-based services that the county board would, if not for the agreement, be required by section 5126.0510 of the Revised Code to pay....

...The director of developmental disabilities shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code governing the authorization and payment of home and community-based services and medicaid case management services. The rules shall provide for private providers of the services to receive one hundred per cent of the medicaid allowable payment amount and for government providers of the services to re...

...An individual with a developmental disability who moves from one county in this state to another county in this state shall receive home and community-based services in the new county that are comparable in scope to the home and community-based services the individual receives in the prior county at the time the individual moves. If the county board serving the county to which the individual moves determines under se...

...The department of developmental disabilities may bring a mandamus action against a county board of developmental disabilities that fails to pay the nonfederal share of medicaid expenditures that the county board is required by sections 5126.059 and 5126.0510 of the Revised Code to pay. The department may bring the mandamus action in the court of common pleas of the county served by the county board or in the ...

...d correctional facility, halfway house, alternative residential facility, or state correctional institution in which the person or child is in custody of that fact and give appropriate notice to the proper authorities in the jurisdiction in which the person is wanted, or, if that jurisdiction is a foreign country, give appropriate notice to federal authorities for transmission to the foreign country. The names, under...

...or another person responsible for them, alternatives that may be available to address their concerns and problems; (c) Offenses under federal law that could relate to missing children and other provisions of federal law that focus on missing children; (d) Offenses under the Revised Code that could relate to missing children, including, but not limited to, kidnapping, abduction, unlawful restraint, child stealin...

...ny citation, or provide any disposition alternative, as granted under Chapter 2935. of the Revised Code. Pursuant to division (A)(9) of section 101.82 of the Revised Code, the commission is exempt from the requirements of sections 101.82 to 101.87 of the Revised Code. As used in sections 109.71 to 109.801 of the Revised Code: (A) "Peace officer" means: (1) A deputy sheriff, marshal, deputy marshal, member...

..., deadly force with a firearm, possible alternatives to using deadly force with a firearm, and the law governing the use of deadly force with a firearm. (2) The attorney general shall consult with and assist the commission in the preparation of the pamphlet described in division (B)(1) of this section and, as necessary, shall recommend to the commission changes in the pamphlet to reflect changes in the law that are ...

...avioral symptoms of dementia, including alternatives to physical restraint; (4) Identifying and reporting incidents of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of individuals with dementia to the appropriate county department of job and family services in accordance with section 5101.63 of the Revised Code; (5) Protocols for contacting caregivers when an individual with dementia is found wandering or during an emergency ...

...on 113.40 of the Revised Code, or by an alternative payment program in accordance with division (B) of section 111.18 of the Revised Code. Any credit card number or the expiration date of any credit card is not subject to disclosure under Chapter 149. of the Revised Code.

...harters, of adopting additional laws or alternative forms of government, of transferring powers to counties, and of withdrawing or revoking those powers; (B) File and preserve all reports, certificates, and copies of agreements transferring powers, whether approved by popular vote or otherwise, and of charters, as permanent public records of the state; (C) Establish regulations prescribing the forms, times, certi...

...2711. of the Revised Code, or any other alternative dispute resolution procedures to be followed in the event a dispute remains between the state or public office and the independent accountant concerning the terms of or services under the contract, or a breach of the contract, after the administrative provisions of the contract have been exhausted. (D) If a uniform accounting network is established under section ...

...(A) In lieu of using a county public defender or joint county public defender to represent indigent persons in the proceedings set forth in division (A) of section 120.16 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners of any county may adopt a resolution to pay counsel who are either personally selected by the indigent person or appointed by the court. The resolution shall include those provisions the board o...

...epartment of development's web site, an alternative source of the applicable data published by a federal agency or, if no such source is available, another reliable source. (2) "Eligible area" means a distressed area, a labor surplus area, an inner city area, or a situational distress area. (3) "Eligible costs associated with a voluntary action" means costs incurred during the qualifying period in performing a ...

...epartment of development's web site, an alternative source of the applicable data published by a federal agency or, if no such source is available, another reliable source. (B) "Eligible applicant" means any of the following that is designated by the governing body of an eligible area as provided in division (B)(1) of section 122.27 of the Revised Code: (1) A port authority as defined in division (A) of section...

...; (11) Assist enterprises in obtaining alternative forms of governmental or commercial financing for industrial research and new technology; (12) Assist enterprises or individuals in the implementation of new programs and policies and the expansion of existing programs to provide an atmosphere conducive to increased cooperation among and participation by individuals, enterprises, and educational institutions ...

...ford bidders all needed information or, alternatively, all of the following plans, details, bills of materials, and specifications: (i) Full and accurate plans suitable for the use of mechanics and other builders in the improvement; (ii) Details to scale and full sized, so drawn and represented as to be easily understood; (iii) Accurate bills showing the exact quantity of different kinds of material necessar...

... section of the Revised Code, establish alternative schedules of sick leave, vacation leave, personal leave, or other benefits for employees not inconsistent with the provisions of a collective bargaining agreement covering the affected employees. (2) Division (E)(1) of this section does not apply to employees for whom the state employment relations board establishes appropriate bargaining units pursuant to sectio...

... to 125.834 of the Revised Code: (A) "Alternative fuel" means any of the following fuels used in a motor vehicle: (1) E85 blend fuel; (2) Blended biodiesel; (3) Natural gas; (4) Liquefied petroleum gas; (5) Hydrogen; (6) Compressed air; (7) Any power source, including electricity; (8) Any fuel not described in divisions (A)(1) to (7) of this section that the United States department of energy determ...

...in the biodiesel revolving fund to the alternative fuel transportation fund created in section 122.075 of the Revised Code to be used by the development services agency for the purposes specified in that section.

...request that a nominating entity submit alternative nominees. (B)(1) The state chief information officer or the officer's designee shall serve as the chairperson of the steering committee and shall be a nonvoting member. All other members shall be voting members. (2) A member of the steering committee appointed from the membership of the senate or the house of representatives shall serve during the member's ter...

... safety answering points as between the alternatives set forth in division (A)(7) of section 128.07 of the Revised Code; (6) Providing for wireless enhanced 9-1-1; (7) Adding, changing, or removing a 9-1-1 system service provider as a participant in the countywide 9-1-1 system; (8) Providing that the state highway patrol or one or more public safety answering points of another 9-1-1 system function as a publ...

...o one or more persons jointly or in the alternative but not in succession. "Order" does not mean an authorization to pay unless the person authorized to pay also is instructed to pay. (11) "Ordinary care" in the case of a person engaged in business means observance of the reasonable commercial standards that are prevailing in the area in which the person is located with respect to the business in which the person i...

...ssued by the customer to the bank; (c) Alternative security procedures offered to the customer; (d) Security procedures in general use by customers and receiving banks similarly situated. (2) A security procedure is deemed to be commercially reasonable if both of the following apply: (a) The security procedure was chosen by the customer after the bank offered, and the customer refused, a security procedure that w...

...only if it can be demonstrated that the alternative format used accurately and completely reflects the record as it was originally created, used, sent, or received. (F) Whenever any rule of law requires or authorizes the filing of any information, notice, lien, or other document or record with any state agency, a filing made by an electronic record shall have the same force and effect as a filing made on paper in al...

...ncludes another record maintained as an alternative to a certificate of title by the governmental unit that issues certificates of title if a statute permits the security interest in question to be indicated on the record as a condition or result of the security interest's obtaining priority over the rights of a lien creditor with respect to the collateral. (11)(a) "Chattel paper" means a record that evidences ...

...storage media costs, actual mailing and alternative delivery costs, or other transmitting costs, and any direct equipment operating and maintenance costs, including actual costs paid to private contractors for copying services. (b) "Bulk commercial special extraction request" means a request for copies of a record for information in a format other than the format already available, or information that cannot be extr...

...ility to obtain, or increased costs of, alternative financing. (C) Except as provided in section 1309.628 of the Revised Code: (1) A person who, at the time of the failure, was a debtor, was an obligor, or held a security interest in or other lien on the collateral may recover damages under division (B) of this section for its loss; and (2) If the collateral is consumer goods, a person who was a debtor or a second...

...An express or implied warranty to or for the benefit of a lessee under sections 1310.01 to 1310.78 of the Revised Code extends to any person who reasonably may be expected to use, consume, or be affected by the goods and who is injured by breach of the warranty. The operation of this section may not be excluded, modified, or limited with respect to injury to the person of an individual to whom the warranty extends, b...

...(A) The department of developmental disabilities shall redetermine a provider's medicaid payment rate for an ICF/IID using revised information if either of the following results in a determination that the provider received a higher medicaid payment rate for the ICF/IID than the provider was entitled to receive: (1) The provider properly amends a cost report for the ICF/IID under section 5124.107 of the Revised Cod...

...In addition to the other penalties authorized by this chapter, the department of developmental disabilities may impose the following penalties on an ICF/IID provider: (A) If the provider does not furnish invoices or other documentation that the department requests during an audit within sixty days after the request, a fine of not more than the greater of the following: (1) One thousand dollars per audit; (2)...

...For the purposes of sections 5124.41 and 5124.42 of the Revised Code, the department of developmental disabilities shall determine the current average bank prime rate using statistical release H.15, "selected interest rates," a weekly publication of the federal reserve board, or any successor publication. If statistical release H.15, or its successor, ceases to contain the bank prime rate information or ceases ...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the department of developmental disabilities shall deduct the following from the next available medicaid payment the department makes to an ICF/IID provider who continues to participate in medicaid: (1) Any amount the provider is required to refund, and any interest charged, under section 5124.41 of the Revised Code; (2) The amount of any penalty imposed...

...The department of developmental disabilities shall transmit to the treasurer of state for deposit in the general revenue fund amounts collected from the following: (A) Refunds required by, and interest charged under, section 5124.41 of the Revised Code; (B) Penalties imposed under section 5124.42 of the Revised Code.

...All of the following are subject to an adjudication conducted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code: (A) Any audit disallowance that the department of developmental disabilities makes as the result of an audit under section 5124.109 of the Revised Code; (B) Any medicaid payment deemed an overpayment under section 5124.523 of the Revised Code; (C) Any penalty the department imposes under section 51...

...An exiting operator or owner of an ICF/IID participating in the medicaid program shall provide the department of developmental disabilities and department of medicaid written notice of a facility closure or voluntary termination not less than ninety days before the effective date of the facility closure or voluntary termination. The written notice shall be provided to the department of developmental disabilitie...

...(A) An exiting operator or owner and entering operator shall provide the department of developmental disabilities and department of medicaid written notice of a change of operator if the ICF/IID participates in the medicaid program and the entering operator seeks to continue the ICF/IID's participation. The written notice shall be provided to the department of developmental disabilities and department of medic...

...The department of medicaid may enter into a provider agreement with an entering operator that goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. on the effective date of the change of operator if all of the following requirements are met: (A) The department receives a properly completed written notice required by section 5124.51 of the Revised Code on or before the date required by that section. (B) The department receives both ...

...(A) The department of medicaid may enter into a provider agreement with an entering operator that goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. on the date determined under division (B) of this section if all of the following are the case: (1) The department receives a properly completed written notice required by section 5124.51 of the Revised Code. (2) The department receives, from the entering operator and in accordance ...

...A provider that enters into a provider agreement with the department of medicaid under section 5124.511 or 5124.512 of the Revised Code shall do all of the following: (A) Comply with all applicable federal statutes and regulations; (B) Comply with section 5124.07 of the Revised Code and all other applicable state statutes and rules; (C) Comply with all the terms and conditions of the exiting operator's provi...

...In the case of a change of operator, the exiting operator shall be considered to be the operator of the ICF/IID for purposes of the medicaid program, including medicaid payments, until the effective date of the entering operator's provider agreement if the provider agreement is entered into under section 5124.511 or 5124.512 of the Revised Code.

...The department of medicaid may enter into a provider agreement as provided in section 5124.07 of the Revised Code, rather than section 5124.511 or 5124.512 of the Revised Code, with an entering operator if the entering operator does not agree to a provider agreement that satisfies the requirements of division (C) of section 5124.513 of the Revised Code. The department may not enter into the provider agreement u...

...The director of developmental disabilities may adopt rules under section 5124.03 of the Revised Code governing adjustments to the medicaid reimbursement rate for an ICF/IID that undergoes a change of operator. No rate adjustment resulting from a change of operator shall be effective before the effective date of the entering operator's provider agreement. This is the case regardless of whether the provider agree...

...The department of developmental disabilities' determination that a change of operator has or has not occurred for purposes of licensure under section 5123.19 of the Revised Code shall not affect either of the following: (A) A determination by the department of developmental disabilities or department of medicaid of whether or when a change of operator occurs; (B) The department of medicaid's determination of ...

...(A) On receipt of a written notice under section 5124.50 of the Revised Code of a facility closure or voluntary termination, on receipt of a written notice under section 5124.51 of the Revised Code of a change of operator, or on the effective date of an involuntary termination, the department of developmental disabilities shall estimate the amount of any overpayments made under the medicaid program to the exiti...

...(A) Except as provided in divisions (B), (C), and (D) of this section, the department of developmental disabilities may withhold from payment due an exiting operator under the medicaid program the total amount specified in the notice provided under division (C) of section 5124.52 of the Revised Code that the exiting operator owes or may owe to the department and United States centers for medicare and medicaid ...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, an exiting operator shall file with the department of developmental disabilities a cost report not later than ninety days after the last day the exiting operator's provider agreement is in effect. The cost report shall cover the period that begins with the day after the last day covered by the operator's most recent previous cost report filed under section...

...If an exiting operator required by section 5124.522 of the Revised Code to file a cost report with the department of developmental disabilities fails to file the cost report in accordance with that section, all payments under the medicaid program for the period the cost report is required to cover are deemed overpayments until the date the department receives the properly completed cost report. The department m...

...The department of developmental disabilities may not provide an exiting operator final payment under the medicaid program until the department receives all properly completed cost reports the exiting operator is required to file under sections 5124.10 and 5124.522 of the Revised Code.

...The department of developmental disabilities shall determine the actual amount of debt an exiting operator owes the department and the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services under the medicaid program by completing all final fiscal audits not already completed and performing all other appropriate actions the department determines to be necessary. The department shall issue an initial debt summ...

...The department of developmental disabilities shall release the actual amount withheld under division (A) of section 5124.521 of the Revised Code, less any amount the exiting operator owes the department and United States centers for medicare and medicaid services under the medicaid program, as follows: (A) Unless the department issues the initial debt summary report required by section 5124.525 of the Revised...

...The department of developmental disabilities, at its sole discretion, may release the amount withheld under division (A) of section 5124.521 of the Revised Code if the exiting operator submits to the department written notice of a postponement of a change of operator, facility closure, or voluntary termination and the transactions leading to the change of operator, facility closure, or voluntary termination are...

...(A) All amounts withheld under section 5124.521 of the Revised Code from payment due an exiting operator under the medicaid program shall be deposited into the medicaid payment withholding fund created by the controlling board pursuant to section 131.35 of the Revised Code. Money in the fund shall be used as follows: (1) To pay an exiting operator when a withholding is released to the exiting operator under s...

...The director of developmental disabilities shall adopt rules under section 5124.03 of the Revised Code to implement sections 5124.50 to 5124.53 of the Revised Code. The rules shall specify all of the following: (A) The method by which written notices to the department required by sections 5124.50 to 5124.53 of the Revised Code are to be provided; (B) The forms and documents that are to be provided to the dep...