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...(A) For the purpose of increasing the number of slots available for home and community-based services, the operator of an ICF/IID may convert some or all of the beds in the ICF/IID from providing ICF/IID services to providing home and community-based services if all of the following requirements are met: (1) The operator provides the directors of health and developmental disabilities at least ninety days' notice of ...

...(A) For the purpose of increasing the number of slots available for home and community-based services, a person who acquires, through a request for proposals issued by the director of developmental disabilities, an ICF/IID for which a residential facility license was previously surrendered or revoked may convert some or all of the ICF/IID's beds from providing ICF/IID services to providing home and community-based se...

...The director of developmental disabilities may request that the medicaid director seek the approval of the United States secretary of health and human services to increase the number of slots available for home and community-based services by a number not exceeding the number of beds that were part of the licensed capacity of a residential facility that had its license revoked or surrendered under section 5123....

...No person or government entity may reconvert a bed to be used for ICF/IID services if the bed was converted to use for home and community-based services under section 5124.60 or 5124.61 of the Revised Code. This prohibition applies regardless of either of the following: (A) The bed is part of the licensed capacity of a residential facility. (B) The bed has been sold, leased, or otherwise transferred to anoth...

...(A)(1) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, an ICF/IID with a medicaid- certified capacity exceeding eight shall not admit an individual as a resident unless all of the following apply: (a) The provider of the ICF/IID provides written notice about the individual's potential admission, and all information about the individual in the provider's possession, to the county board of developmental disabiliti...

...(A) The department of developmental disabilities shall develop and make available to all ICFs/IID a written pamphlet that describes all of the items and services covered by medicaid as ICF/IID services and as home and community-based services. The department shall develop the pamphlet in consultation with persons and organizations interested in matters pertaining to individuals eligible for ICF/IID services and home ...

...(A) This section does not apply to any of the following: (1) An ICF/IID to which both of the following apply: (a) On or before January 1, 2015, the ICF/IID became a downsized ICF/IID or partially converted ICF/IID. (b) On January 1, 2015, the ICF/IID's medicaid-certified capacity was at least twenty per cent less than the greatest medicaid-certified capacity it had before it became a downsized ICF/IID or par...

...Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, an ICF/IID operator shall not reserve or convert any portion of the ICF/IID's beds from providing ICF/IID services to providing services to individuals receiving services through the Ohio resilience through integrated systems and excellence (OhioRISE) program for children and youth involved in multiple state systems or children and youth with other co...

...Whoever violates section 5124.102 or division (E) of section 5124.08 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars for the first offense and not less than one thousand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars for each subsequent offense. Fines paid under this section shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund.

... a developmental disability through any public or private resources, including moneys from the individual, that enhance the individual's reputation in community life and advance the individual's quality of life by doing the following: (a) Providing the support necessary to enable an individual to live in a residence of the individual's choice, with any number of individuals who are not disabled, or with not more th...

...Whenever a county board of mental retardation and developmental disabilities is referred to or designated in any statute, rule, contract, grant, or other document, the reference or designation shall be deemed to refer to a county board of developmental disabilities.

...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 shall be deemed to refer to the department or director of developmental disabilities, as the case may be.

...(A) Each county shall have its own county board of developmental disabilities. Subject to division (B) of this section: (1) A county board shall be operated as a separate administrative and service entity. (2) The functions of a county board shall not be combined with the functions of any other entity of county government. (B) Division (A) of this section does not prohibit or restrict any county board from s...

...(A) Each county board of developmental disabilities shall consist of seven members. The board of county commissioners of the county shall appoint five members and the senior probate judge of the county shall appoint two members. (B) Beginning July 1, 2025, when making initial appointments to a county board of developmental disabilities, and when making an appointment to fill a vacancy pursuant to section 5126.027 ...

...When making appointments to a county board of developmental disabilities, an appointing authority shall do all of the following: (A) Appoint only individuals who are residents of the county the appointing authority serves, citizens of the United States, and interested and knowledgeable in the field of intellectual disabilities and other allied fields; (B) If the appointing authority is a board of county commissio...

...lopmental disabilities: (A) An elected public official, except for a township trustee, township fiscal officer, or individual excluded from the definition of public official or employee in division (B) of section 102.01 of the Revised Code; (B) An immediate family member of a member of the same county board; (C) An employee of any county board; (D) An immediate family member of an employee of the same county boar...

...e county board. The declaration is a public record for the purpose of section 149.43 of the Revised Code.

...Except for members appointed under section 5126.027 of the Revised Code to fill a vacancy, members of a county board of developmental disabilities shall be appointed or reappointed not later than the last day of November, commence their terms on the date of the stated annual organizational meeting in the following January as provided under section 5126.029 of the Revised Code, and serve terms of four years. T...

...Except as otherwise provided in this section and section 5126.0218 of the Revised Code, a member of a county board of developmental disabilities may be reappointed to the county board. Prior to making a reappointment, the appointing authority shall ascertain, through written communication with the board, that the member being considered for reappointment meets the requirements of sections 5126.022 and 5126.0218...

...Within sixty days after a vacancy on a county board of developmental disabilities occurs, including a vacancy created under section 5126.0213 of the Revised Code, the appointing authority shall fill the vacancy for the unexpired term. Before filling a vacancy, the appointing authority shall cause a notice of the vacancy to be published on at least two separate dates in one or more newspapers serving the count...

...Members of a county board of developmental disabilities shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for necessary expenses incurred in the conduct of county board business, including expenses that are incurred in the member's county of residence in accordance with an established policy of the county board.

...rd proceedings, which shall be open for public inspection.

...Each year, each member of a county board of developmental disabilities shall attend at least four hours of in-service training provided or approved by the department of developmental disabilities. This training shall not be considered regularly scheduled meetings of the county board.

...A member of a county board of developmental disabilities shall be considered present at an in-service training session even though the member is not physically present in the room in which the session is held if the member is connected to the session through a system that enables the member to communicate with the individuals participating in the session and such individuals to communicate with the member.

...In no circumstance shall a member of a county board of developmental disabilities participate in or vote on any matter before the county board concerning a contract agency of which the member or an immediate family member of the member is also a board member or an employee.