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...When the question of issuing the bonds provided for by section 139.02 of the Revised Code is submitted to the electors, more than one project may be included in the legislation determining to submit such question; provided that on the ballot submitting to the electors the question of the issuance of such bonds, the question of the issuance of bonds for each individual project shall be submitted as a separate question...

...(A) Two or more hospital agencies may enter into agreements for the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, remodeling, renovating, enlarging, equipping, and furnishing of hospital facilities, or the management, operation, occupancy, use, maintenance, and repair of hospital facilities, or for participation in programs, projects, activities, and services useful to, connected with, supplementin...

...(A) A volunteer peace officer who, on or after December 22, 2015, is totally and permanently disabled as a result of discharging the duties of a volunteer peace officer shall receive a benefit from the volunteer peace officers' dependents fund of three hundred dollars per month, except that no payment shall be made to a volunteer peace officer who is receiving the officer's full salary during the time of the officer'...

... private, temporary-help service and performs services under the direction of a public employer or is employed on a contractual basis as an independent contractor under a personal service contract with a public employer; (2) Who is an emergency employee serving on a temporary basis in case of fire, snow, earthquake, flood, or other similar emergency; (3) Who is employed in a program established pursuant to the "J...

...Notwithstanding section 145.03 of the Revised Code, an individual employed by, or otherwise compensated with state funds appropriated to, the department of development who is principally located outside of the United States and is or intends to become a member of a foreign government's retirement or social security system in lieu of becoming a member of the public employees retirement system may choose to be exempted...

...(A) A public employer who on or after January 7, 2013, begins to receive personal services from an individual it classifies as an independent contractor or another classification other than public employee shall inform the individual of the classification and that no contributions will be made to the public employees retirement system for the services. Not later than thirty days after the services begin, the em...

...The secretary of state, or any person acting on personal knowledge and subject to the penalties of perjury, may file a complaint with the Ohio elections commission alleging a violation of section 145.054 of the Revised Code. The complaint shall be made on a form prescribed and provided by the commission. On receipt of a complaint under this section, the commission shall hold a hearing open to the public to determine...

...Under the direction of the public employees retirement board, the head of each department shall keep such records as will enable him to furnish information in such form as the board requires in the discharge of its duties.

...(A) Any elective official of the state of Ohio or of any political subdivision thereof having employees in the public employees retirement system shall be considered as an employee of the state or such political subdivision, and may become a member of the system upon application to the public employees retirement board, with all the rights, privileges, and obligations of membership. An elective official who bec...

...The public employees retirement board shall provide for the maintenance of an individual account with each contributor showing the amount of the contributor's contributions and the interest accumulations thereon. It shall collect and keep in convenient form such data as is necessary for the preparation of the required mortality and service tables, and for an actuarial valuation of the assets and liabilities of the va...

...(A) A member of the public employees retirement system who elects to purchase or otherwise obtain service credit under section 145.28, 145.291, 145.292, 145.293, or 145.299 or division (G) of section 145.47 of the Revised Code shall do both of the following: (1) Submit a request to the public employees retirement board in a manner or form approved by the board; (2) For each year, or portion of a year, of credit pur...

...(A) Service credit may be purchased under this section for the following: (1) Service rendered in another state, and service in any entity operated by the United States government, that, if served in a comparable position in Ohio, would be covered by the public employees retirement system, Ohio police and fire pension fund, state teachers retirement system, school employees retirement system, or state highway...

...(A)(1) As used in this section and section 145.301 of the Revised Code: (a) "Armed forces" of the United States includes the following: (i) Army, navy, air force, marine corps, space force, coast guard, auxiliary corps as established by congress, red cross nurse serving with the army, navy, air force, or hospital service of the United States, army nurse corps, navy nurse corps, full-time service with the American...

...(A) A member of the public employees retirement system who has at least eighteen months of contributing service credit in the system, the Ohio police and fire pension fund, school employees retirement system, state teachers retirement system, or state highway patrol retirement system, and is a former member of or no longer contributing to the school employees retirement system or state teachers retirement system may ...

...A member who, on the effective date of this section , meets the definition of bureau of criminal identification and investigation investigator, gaming agent, department of taxation investigator, special police officer for a port authority, or special police officer for a municipal airport in section 145.01 of the Revised Code may make the election to be considered a PERS law enforcement officer or PERS public safety ...

...(A)(1) Subject to the provisions of section 145.57 of the Revised Code and except as provided in division (B) of this section, if a member elects to become exempt from contribution to the public employees retirement system pursuant to section 145.03 of the Revised Code or ceases to be a public employee for any cause other than death, retirement, receipt of a disability benefit, or current employment in a position in ...

...(A) As used in this section and in section 145.45 of the Revised Code: (1) "Child" means a biological or legally adopted child of a deceased member. If a court hearing for an interlocutory decree for adoption was held prior to the member's death, "child" includes the child who was the subject of the hearing notwithstanding the fact that the final decree of adoption, adjudging the surviving spouse as the adoptive par...

...Designation of a beneficiary for the purposes of section 145.40 of the Revised Code or a return of contributions to the beneficiary of a member participating in a PERS defined contribution plan shall be made under this section. A beneficiary shall be designated in writing duly executed on a form provided by the public employees retirement board and signed by the member. A designation under this section is not valid u...

...(A) As used in this section, "child," "parent," and "surviving spouse" have the same meanings as in section 145.43 of the Revised Code. (B) Should a contributor die before commencement of a benefit under section 145.64 of the Revised Code, any deposits made under section 145.62 or the version of division (C) of section 145.23 of the Revised Code as it existed immediately prior to the effective date of this section p...

...usts, pooled investment funds, or other forms of investment. Each plan may also permit a participant to transfer participation to another plan created under this chapter. Transfers must be made in accordance with section 145.814 of the Revised Code. The board may administer the plans, enter into contracts with other entities to administer the plans, or both.

...(A) As used in this section, "eligible member" means a member who was eligible to make an election under section 145.19 or 145.191 of the Revised Code, regardless of whether the member elected to participate in a PERS defined contribution plan. (B) If permitted to do so by the plan documents for a PERS defined contribution plan or rules governing the PERS defined benefit plan, an eligible member may elect, at ...

...(A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, a commission for a notary public appointed prior to the effective date of this section shall remain valid until that commission's expiration date. (2) A commission issued to an attorney shall be governed by section 147.03 of the Revised Code. (B) A commission that is set to expire as described in section 147.03 of the Revised Code or as in division (A) ...

...(A) A notary public has personal knowledge of the identity of the person appearing before the notary public if the person is personally known to the notary public through dealings sufficient to provide reasonable certainty that the person has the identity claimed. (B) A notary public has satisfactory evidence of the identity of the person appearing before the notary public if the notary public can identify the pers...

...and audio conference technology that conforms to the standards adopted by the secretary of state under section 147.62 of the Revised Code. (J) "Online notary public" means a notary public who has been duly appointed and commissioned under section 147.01 of the Revised Code and has received authorization by the secretary of state under section 147.63 of the Revised Code to perform online notarizations. (K) "Princi...

...ion 147.62 of the Revised Code modified forms of notarial certificates for any notarial act that is an online notarization.

...The department of mental health and addiction services may prescribe the form of applications, reports, records, and medical certificates provided for under this chapter, and the information required to be contained therein; require reports from the chief clinical officer of any public hospital relating to the admission, examination, diagnosis, release, or discharge of any patient; visit each such hospital regu...

...(A) As used in sections 5123.16 to 5123.1611 of the Revised Code: (1) "Applicant" means any of the following: (a) The chief executive officer of a business that applies under section 5123.161 of the Revised Code for a certificate to provide supported living; (b) The chief executive officer of a business that seeks renewal of the business's supported living certificate under section 5123.164 of the Revised Code; (...

...The department of developmental disabilities shall keep in its office a proper and complete set of books and accounts with each institution, which shall clearly show the nature and amount of every expenditure authorized and made at such institution, and which shall contain an account of all appropriations made by the general assembly and of all other funds, together with the disposition of such funds. The de...

...A county board of developmental disabilities or private, nonprofit agency that receives state funds pursuant to an agreement with the director of developmental disabilities under section 5123.36 of the Revised Code to acquire a facility may apply to the director for approval to sell the facility before the terms of the agreement expire for the purpose of acquiring a replacement facility to be used to provide developm...

...The department of developmental disabilities shall establish and maintain a registry that lists all developmental disabilities personnel and registered nurses holding valid certificates issued under section 5123.45 of the Revised Code. The registry shall specify the type of certificate held and any limitations that apply to a certificate holder. The department shall make the information in the registry available to t...

...(A)(1) Proceedings for the involuntary institutionalization of a person pursuant to sections 5123.71 to 5123.76 of the Revised Code shall be commenced by the filing of an affidavit with the probate division of the court of common pleas of the county where the person resides or where the person is institutionalized, in the manner and form prescribed by the department of developmental disabilities either on information...

...(A) Except as provided in divisions (C), (D), and (E) of this section, the chief medical officer shall provide all information, including expected physical and medical consequences, necessary to enable any resident of an institution for persons with i ntellectual disabilities to give a fully informed, intelligent, and knowing consent if any of the following procedures are proposed: (1) Surgery; (2) Sterilization; ...

...The department of developmental disabilities shall develop an addendum to the cost report form that an ICF/IID provider may use to set forth costs that the provider believes the department may dispute. The department may consider such costs in determining an ICF/IID's medicaid payment rate. If the department does not consider such costs in determining an ICF/IID's medicaid payment rate, the provider may seek re...

...If the board of county commissioners adopts a resolution under sections 135.801 and 135.802 of the Revised Code implementing a residential facility linked deposit program, the county board of developmental disabilities shall adopt a resolution that does all of the following: (A) Establishes standards for its review of applications and its approval or disapproval of proposed residential fa...

...An eligible organization that seeks a residential facility linked deposit loan to finance all or part of the development of a residential facility shall obtain approval of the proposed project from the county board of developmental disabilities of the county in which the facility will be developed. The application shall be in the form prescribed by the board and include all of the following: ...

...On receiving a resolution under section 5126.55 of the Revised Code approving development of a residential facility, an eligible organization may apply to an eligible lending institution, in the form prescribed by the institution, for a residential facility linked deposit loan to finance all or part of the development of the residential facility. The eligible organization shall include with its application both of th...

...On acceptance of a residential facility linked deposit loan by the county board of developmental disabilities, the county's investing authority shall enter into a residential facility linked deposit agreement with the eligible lending institution. The agreement shall include all of the following terms: (A) An agreement by the investing authority to place certificates of deposit with the...

...On placement of a residential facility linked deposit pursuant to the residential facility linked deposit agreement under section 5126.59 of the Revised Code, the eligible lending institution shall lend the value of the residential facility linked deposit in accordance with the agreement. The loan shall be at an annual interest rate that is the same number of percentage points below the annual borrowing rate currentl...

...The boards of township trustees of any two or more contiguous townships, whether or not within the same county, may, by a two-thirds favorable vote of each such board, form themselves into a joint township district hospital board for the purpose of establishing, constructing, and maintaining a joint township district general hospital or other hospital facilities as defined in section 140.01 of the Revised Code, and s...

...A municipal corporation which is not at the time part of a joint township hospital district may, by a two-thirds favorable vote of its legislative authority, participate in the formation of a joint township district hospital board pursuant to section 513.07 of the Revised Code if it is contiguous to another municipal corporation contemplated to be included in the district, or contiguous to, or partly but not wholly w...

...The department of youth services shall do all of the following: (A) Support service districts through a central administrative office that shall have as its administrative head a deputy director who shall be appointed by the director of the department. When a vacancy occurs in the office of that deputy director, an assistant deputy director shall act as that deputy director until the vacancy is filled. The po...

...The department of youth services shall do all of the following: (A) Through a program of education, promotion, and organization, form groups of local citizens and assist these groups in conducting activities aimed at the prevention and control of juvenile delinquency, making use of local people and resources for the following purposes: (1) Combatting local conditions known to contribute to juvenile delinquen...

...The department of youth services shall adopt rules prescribing the minimum standards of construction for a school, forestry camp, or other facility established under section 2151.65 of the Revised Code for which financial assistance may be granted to assist in defraying the cost of the construction of the school, forestry camp, or other facility. If an application for that financial assistance is filed with the depar...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Quality assurance committee" means a committee that is appointed in the central office of the department of youth services by the director of youth services, a committee appointed at an institution by the managing officer of the institution, or a duly authorized subcommittee of that nature and that is designated to carry out quality assurance program activities. (2) "Institution...

...eparation and manufacture of any or all forms of road-making material for use in the construction, improvement, maintenance, and repair of highways, roads, or streets. For these purposes the department may, with the approval of the governor, purchase the necessary land, quarries, buildings, machinery, and erect buildings and shops for these purposes, and employ any persons necessary to instruct the prisoners in such...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) Free weight exercise equipment means any equipment or device that is designed to increase the muscle mass and physical strength of the person using it. Free weight exercise equipment includes, but is not limited to, barbells, dumbbells, weight plates, and similar free weight-type equipment and other devices that the department of rehabilitation and correction, in rules adopted under ...

...The executive director of each public children services agency or a person designated by the executive director shall collect and maintain the data from individual training needs assessments completed under sections 5153.125 and 5153.126 of the Revised Code for each PCSA caseworker and PCSA caseworker supervisor employed by the agency. The executive director or designated person shall compile and forward the data col...

... (1) The application process for all forms of assistance provided under this section; (2) The method to determine the amount of assistance payable under division (B) of this section; (3) The definition of "child with special needs" for this section; (4) The process whereby a child's continuing need for services provided under division (B) or (C) of this section is annually redetermined; (5) Any other r...

...The boards of county commissioners of two or more adjoining counties, not to exceed four, may, upon the recommendation of the public children services agencies of such counties, and subject to the approval of the department of children and youth form themselves into a joint board, and proceed to organize a district for the establishment and support of a children's home, by using a site and buildings already establish...

...When the board of trustees appointed under section 5153.39 of the Revised Code does not choose an established institution in one of the counties of the district it may select a suitable site for the erection of a district children's home. Such site must be easily accessible, and when, in the judgment of the board, it is equally conducive to health, economy in purchasing or in building, and to the general interest of ...