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... Ohio deaf and blind education services is hereby established and shall include the state school for the deaf and the state school for the blind. Ohio deaf and blind education services shall operate under the control and supervision of the department of education and workforce. The department shall appoint a superintendent for Ohio deaf and blind education services, who shall supervise the state school for the deaf a...

... Subject to the regulations adopted by the department of education and workforce, the state school for the deaf shall be open to receive persons who are deaf, hard of hearing, and deafblind residents of this state, who, in the judgment of the director of education and workforce and the superintendent of Ohio deaf and blind education services, due to such disability, cannot be educated in the public school system and ...

... (A) As used in this chapter, a person with a "visual impairment" means the person is blind, visually impaired, deafblind, or has multiple disabilities if one of the disabilities is vision related. (B) Subject to the regulations adopted by the department of education and workforce, the state school for the blind shall be open to receive persons who are residents of this state, whose disabilities are visual impairm...

... The superintendent of Ohio deaf and blind education services may return any pupil under the superintendent's jurisdiction to the pupil's resident school district if, in the opinion of the superintendent and the director of education and workforce, that pupil is not making sufficient progress to justify continuance as a pupil at the state school for the deaf or the state school for the blind.

... The superintendent of Ohio deaf and blind education services, with the approval of the director of education and workforce, shall, subject to the rules and regulations of the civil service, employ suitable teachers, nurses, and other staff necessary to operate Ohio deaf and blind education services and provide proper instruction and care to the pupils under the jurisdiction of the superintendent of Ohio deaf and bli...

... The department of education and workforce may provide for the further and higher education of any blind pupils, who in its judgment are capable of receiving sufficient benefit to render them more efficient as citizens, by providing appropriate assistive technology to enable such persons to read from textbooks and pamphlets used in their studies while in attendance as regularly matriculated students in any college, u...

... (A) Ohio deaf and blind education services, in consultation with the department of children and youth, shall institute and establish a program of education to train parents of deaf or hard of hearing children of preschool age. The object and purpose of the educational program shall be to aid and assist the parents of deaf or hard of hearing children of preschool age in affording to the children the means of optimum ...

... Ohio deaf and blind education services, in consultation with the department of children and youth, in carrying out this section and division (A) of section 3325.06 of the Revised Code shall, insofar as practicable, plan, present, and carry into effect an educational program by means of any of the following methods of instruction: (A) Classes for parents of deaf or hard of hearing children of preschool age; (B)...

... Ohio deaf and blind education services, in consultation with the department of children and youth, in carrying out this section and division (B) of section 3325.06 of the Revised Code shall, insofar as practicable, plan, present, and carry into effect an educational program by means of any of the following methods of instruction: (A) Classes for parents of children of preschool age whose disabilities are visual i...

... (A) A diploma shall be granted by the superintendent of Ohio deaf and blind education services to any student enrolled in the state school for the blind or the state school for the deaf to whom all of the following apply: (1) The student has successfully completed the curriculum in any high school or the individualized education program developed for the student for the student's high school education pursuant to...

... (A) Ohio deaf and blind education services shall institute and establish career-technical education and work training programs for secondary and post-secondary students who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, or deafblind. These programs shall develop communication, mobility, and work skills and assist students in becoming productive members of society so that they can contribute to their communitie...

... Ohio deaf and blind education services may receive and administer any federal funds relating to the education of students at the state school for the blind whose disabilities are visual impairments, including secondary and post-secondary students. Ohio deaf and blind education services also may accept and administer any gifts, donations, or bequests made to it for programs or services relating to the education of st...

... There is hereby created in the state treasury Ohio deaf and blind education services student activity and work-study fund. Moneys received from donations, bequests, the vocational programs of the state school for the blind and the state school for the deaf, and any other moneys designated for deposit in the fund by the superintendent of Ohio deaf and blind education services shall be credited to the fund. Notwithsta...

... Money deposited with the superintendent of Ohio deaf and blind education services by parents, relatives, guardians, and friends for the special benefit of any pupil at the state school for the blind or the state school for the deaf shall remain in the hands of the superintendent for use accordingly. The superintendent shall deposit the money into one or more personal deposit funds. The superintendent shall keep item...

... Ohio deaf and blind education services employees food service fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of payments received from employees who make purchases from the food service program of the state school for the blind or state school for the deaf. Notwithstanding section 3325.01 of the Revised Code, the approval of the department of education and workforce is not required to designate...

... Ohio deaf and blind education services may receive and administer any federal funds relating to the education of deaf, hard of hearing, or deafblind students. Ohio deaf and blind education services also may accept and administer any gifts, donations, or bequests given to it for programs or services relating to the education of deaf or hard of hearing students and the state school for the deaf.

... There is hereby created in the state treasury the state school for the deaf educational program expenses fund. Moneys received by Ohio deaf and blind education services for the state school for the deaf from donations, bequests, student fundraising activities, fees charged for camps and workshops, gate receipts from athletic contests, and the student work experience program operated by the school, and any other mone...

... There is hereby created in the state treasury the state school for the blind educational program expense fund. Moneys received by Ohio deaf and blind education services for the state school for the blind from donations, bequests, student fundraising activities, fees charged for camps, workshops, and summer work and learn cooperative programs, gate receipts from school activities, and any other moneys designated for ...

...(A) As used in this chapter: (1) "Compact career-technical education provider" means two or more city, exempted village, or local school districts that are not members of a joint vocational school district and that have entered into a compact under which students enrolled in any of the participating districts may access career-technical education programs provided by a participating district. (2) "Comprehensive c...

... There is hereby established the STEM committee of the department of education and workforce consisting of the following members: (A) The director of education and workforce, or the director's designee; (B) The chancellor of higher education, or the chancellor's designee; (C) The director of development, or the director's designee; (D) Four members of the public, two of whom shall be appointed by the gove...

... (A) The STEM committee shall authorize the establishment of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics schools based on proposals submitted to the committee. The committee shall determine the criteria for proposals, establish procedures for the submission of proposals, accept and evaluate proposals, and choose which proposals to approve to become a STEM school. In approving proposals for STEM schools, the ...

...(A) As authorized by the STEM committee, a single governing body may direct a group of multiple STEM schools to operate from multiple facilities located in one or more school districts to be organized and operated in the manner prescribed under this chapter except as specified by this section. Each school within the group shall operate as a separate school but under the direction of a common governing body. The gover...

... (A) The STEM committee may grant a designation of STEM school equivalent to any of the following schools: (1) A school operated by a joint vocational school district; (2) A school offering career-technical education programs that is operated by a school district that is a comprehensive career-technical education provider; (3) A school offering career-technical education programs that is operated by a school...

... (A) The STEM committee shall grant distinctions as STEM programs of excellence to STEM programs operated by joint vocational school districts, comprehensive career-technical education providers, compact career-technical education providers, and educational service centers in accordance with this section. (B) A joint vocational school district, comprehensive career-technical education provider, compact career-tech...

...The STEM committee shall work with an Ohio-based nonprofit enterprise selected by the committee to support the strategic and operational coordination of public and private STEM education initiatives and resources focused on curriculum development, instruction, assessment, teacher quality enhancement, leadership recruitment and training, and community engagement. The nonprofit enterprise selected by the S...

... If there is more than one appellant in a trial by jury authorized under section 6131.32 of the Revised Code with separate claims on the question of compensation or damages or if there are issues as to different properties, the court may submit all the several claims and issues to the same jury, with appropriate verdicts as to each claim. The court also may direct separate trials for the separate claims and issues. T...

... (A) If necessary, the board of county commissioners, each March, shall levy upon the grand duplicate of the county a tax, not to exceed five-tenths of one mill on the dollar, that is sufficient to pay for the location and construction of the portions of the respective improvements located by the board or for which the county has been assessed under this chapter or Chapter 6133., 6135., or 6137. of the Revised Code. ...

... (A) On the date fixed by the clerk of the board of county commissioners with whom the petition was filed, the board of county commissioners from each of the counties affected by a proposed joint county improvement shall meet and organize a joint board of county commissioners by electing one of their number president. (B) The clerk of the board of county commissioners of the lead county shall act as clerk and admi...

...After receiving notice by the clerk of the board of county commissioners of the time and place of the meeting as provided in section 6135.02 of the Revised Code, the boards of county commissioners shall proceed at such time and place to form themselves into a joint board for the purpose before them by electing one of their number as president and another as clerk. The president and clerk shall not both be selected f...

... (A) The governor's office of workforce transformation, the department of education and workforce, and the chancellor of higher education, in consultation with business and economic development stakeholder groups, shall develop a regional workforce collaboration model. The model shall provide guidance on how the JobsOhio regional network, local chambers of commerce, economic development organizations, business, busin...

...Process shall be under the seal of the court from which it issues, shall be styled "The State of Ohio, _______________ County," shall be signed by the clerk of such court, and shall bear the date of the day it actually is issued.

... For the publication of advertisements, notices, and proclamations, except those relating to proposed amendments to the Ohio Constitution, required to be published by a public officer of the state, a benevolent or other public institution, a trustee, assignee, executor, or administrator, or by or in any court of record, except when the rate is otherwise fixed by law, publishers of newspapers may charge and receive fo...

...For publication of proposed amendments to the Ohio constitution, ballot language, and explanations and arguments both for and against proposed amendments, referenda, or laws proposed by initiative petitions, publishers of newspapers may charge and receive rates charged on annual contracts by them for a like amount of space to other advertisers who advertise in its general display advertising columns. Legal ad...

...A proclamation for an election, an order fixing the time of holding court, notice of the rates of taxation, bridge and pike notices, notice to contractors, and such other advertisements of general interest to the taxpayers as the county auditor, county treasurer, probate judge, or board of county commissioners deems proper shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation, as defined in section 7.12 of t...

...(A) Whenever a state agency or a political subdivision of the state is required by law to make any legal publication in a newspaper, the newspaper shall be a newspaper of general circulation. As used in the Revised Code, "newspaper" or "newspaper of general circulation," except daily law journals in existence on or before July 1, 2011, and performing the functions described in section 2701.09 of the Revised Cod...

... (A) As used in this section: (1) "State agency" means any organized body, office, agency, institution, or other entity established by the laws of the state for the exercise of any function of state government, including state institutions of higher education, as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code. (2) "Political subdivision" has the meaning defined in section 2744.01 of the Revised Code. (B) If a...

...In submitting to the electors of any municipal corporation the question of organizing under any one of the plans of government provided in sections 705.41 to 705.86, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the board of elections shall have printed on the ballots the following question: "Shall the (name the plan) plan of government, as provided in chapter ________ section ________ of the Revised Code be adopted?" Imme...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall choose an auditor, who shall keep an accurate account of all taxes and assessments, and of all money due to, all receipts and disbursements by, and of all assets and liabilities of the municipal corporation, and of all appropriations made by the legislative authority. The auditor shall, at the end of each fiscal year, and more often if required by the legisla...

...The village solicitor or city director of law shall act as the legal advisor to and attorney for the municipal corporation, and for all officers of the municipal corporation in matters relating to their official duties. He shall prepare all contracts, bonds, and other instruments in writing in which the municipal corporation is concerned, and shall indorse on each his approval of the form and the correctness thereof....

...A majority of all members of the legislative authority of a municipal corporation constitutes a quorum, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day and compel the attendance of absent members. The affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the legislative authority is necessary to adopt any motion, ordinance, or resolution, and on the passage of every ordinance or resolution the vote shall be taken by "yea...

...An annual tax ordinance to determine the amount of the tax levy shall be prepared by the mayor, the chairman of the commission, or the city manager, as the case may be, under the direction of the legislative authority. For the purpose of preparing such ordinances such officer shall require from the head of each office or department for which appropriations are made, a detailed statement, upon uniform blanks furnished...

...At the end of each year the legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall have an annual report printed, in pamphlet form, giving: (A) The classified statement of all receipts, expenditures, assets, and liabilities of the municipal corporation; (B) A detailed comparison of such receipts and expenditures with those of the preceding year; (C) A summary of the proceedings of the legislative authority and a s...

...The form of government provided in sections 705.41 to 705.48, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be known as the "commission plan." In municipal corporations organized under such sections the only elective officers shall be the members of the municipal commission. Three commissioners shall be chosen in municipal corporations having not more than ten thousand inhabitants according to the last preceding federal cens...

...The form of government provided in sections 705.51 to 705.60, inclusive, of the Revised Code, to be known as the "city manager plan," shall consist of a council of five or more citizens, according to the population of the municipal corporation as determined by the last preceding federal census, who shall be elected at large. The council shall constitute the governing body of such municipal corporation with power...

...The form of government provided in sections 705.71 to 705.86, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be known as the "federal plan." In municipal corporations adopting such plan the only elective officers shall be the mayor and members of council.

...All laws pertaining to the initiative and referendum in municipal corporations shall apply to and become a part of each plan of government provided in sections 705.41 to 705.86, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Section 705.92 of the Revised Code shall be submitted, with each such plan, to the electors of the municipal corporation as prescribed in section 705.03 of the Revised Code, and shall go into effect and form a...

...Notwithstanding Section 38 of Article II, Ohio Constitution, or any other provisions in the Revised Code to the contrary, any elective officer of a municipal corporation may be removed from office by the qualified voters of such municipal corporation. The procedure to effect such removal shall be: (A) A petition signed by qualified electors equal in number to at least fifteen per cent of the total votes cast at the ...

... (A) The petition required by section 707.29 of the Revised Code shall be signed by twenty per cent of the electors in the territory, as determined by the total number of votes cast within that territory for the office of governor at the preceding general election for that office, and filed with the board of county commissioners requesting that the question of incorporating territory as a city be placed on the ballot...

...(A) A petition filed under section 709.021 of the Revised Code that requests to follow this section is for the special procedure of annexing land into a municipal corporation when, subject to division (H) of this section, the land also is not to be excluded from the township under section 503.07 of the Revised Code. The owners who sign this petition by their signature expressly waive their right to appeal in law or e...

...(A) A petition filed under section 709.021 of the Revised Code that requests to follow this section is for the special procedure of annexing land into a municipal corporation for the purpose of undertaking a significant economic development project. As used in this section, "significant economic development project" means one or more economic development projects that can be classified as industrial, distribution, hi...