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...The department of mental health and addiction services is hereby designated as the state administrative agency for the substance abuse prevention treatment block grant and the community mental health services block grant authorized by the "Public Health Services Act," 95 Stat. 357, 543, 42 U.S.C. 300x, as amended, and similar alcohol, drug abuse, or mental health programs that are specified in an appropriations...

...(A)(1) The department of mental health and addiction services shall inspect and license all hospitals that receive persons with mental illnesses, except those hospitals managed by the department. No hospital may receive for care or treatment, either at public or private expense, any person who is or appears to have a mental illness, whether or not so adjudicated, unless the hospital has received a license from the de...

...If the department of mental health and addiction services determines that a hospital not licensed by the department is receiving for care or treatment any person who is or appears to have a mental illness, the department may request in writing that the attorney general petition the court of common pleas in the county where the hospital is located to enjoin the hospital from continued operation in violation of section...

...s licensed by the department of mental health and addiction services. As used in this section, "third-party payer" means a health insuring corporation licensed under Chapter 1751. of the Revised Code, an insurance company that issues sickness and accident insurance in conformity with Chapter 3923. of the Revised Code, a state-financed health insurance program under Chapter 3701., 4123., or 5101. of the Revis...

...is licensed by the department of mental health and addiction services, as provided by section 5119.33 of the Revised Code.

...val to operate a hospital or practice a health care profession. (B)(1) When submitting an application for initial or renewed licensure of a hospital under section 5119.33 of the Revised Code, the applicant shall notify the department of mental health and addiction services of any adverse action taken against the hospital or the hospital's owner, sponsor, medical director, administrator, or any of its principals wi...

... of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services. (3) "Adult" means a person who is eighteen years of age or older, other than a person described in division (A)(4) of this section who is between eighteen and twenty-one years of age. (4) "Child" means a person who is under eighteen years of age or a person with a mental disability who is under twenty-one years of age. (5) "Community mental health serv...

...(A) Any person may operate a residential facility providing accommodations and personal care services for one to five unrelated persons and licensed as a residential facility that meets the criteria specified in division (B)(1)(b) of section 5119.34 of the Revised Code as a permitted use in any residential district or zone, including any single-family residential district or zone of any political subdivision. Such fa...

...pon petition by the director of mental health and addiction services, the court of common pleas or the probate court may appoint a receiver to take possession of and operate a residential facility licensed pursuant to section 5119.34 of the Revised Code, when conditions existing at the residential facility present a substantial risk of physical or mental harm to residents and no other remedies at law are adequa...

...te a residential facility or practice a health care profession. (B)(1) When submitting an application for initial or renewed licensure of a residential facility under section 5119.34 of the Revised Code, the applicant shall notify the department of mental health and addiction services of any adverse action taken against the residential facility or the facility's owner, operator, or manager within the three-year pe...

...vision (B) of this section, if a mental health service or alcohol and drug addiction service has been specified in rules adopted under this section as a service that is required to be certified, no person or government entity shall provide that service unless it has been certified under section 5119.36 of the Revised Code. (B) Division (A) of this section does not apply to either of the following: (1) An indivi...

... each month to the department of mental health and addiction services: (a) An unduplicated count of all individuals who were included on the provider's waiting list during the immediately preceding month and each type of included opioid and co-occurring drug addiction services and recovery supports for which they were waiting; (b) The total number of days each such individual had been on the provider's waiting li...

...The director of mental health and addiction services shall adopt rules governing the duties of community addiction services providers under section 5119.362 of the Revised Code. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. The director shall adopt rules under this section that authorize the department of mental health and addiction services to determine an advanced practice regis...

...(A) The department of mental health and addiction services shall do both of the following with the r eports it receives from community addiction services providers under section 5119.362 of the Revised Code: (1) Subject to division (B) of this section, make the reports available on the department's internet web site ; (2) Make the reports available in an electronic format to boards of alcohol, drug addiction, a...

...The director of mental health and addiction services shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to do both of the following: (A) Streamline the intake procedures used by a community addiction services provider accepting and beginning to serve a new individual, including procedures regarding intake forms and questionnaires; (B) Enable a community addiction services provider to retain an in...

...The director of mental health and addiction services shall require that each board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services ensure that each community mental health services provider and community addiction services provider with which it contracts under section 340.036 of the Revised Code to provide certifiable services and supports establish grievance procedures consistent with rules adopted under se...

...t shall notify the department of mental health and addiction services of any adverse action taken against the applicant or any owner or principal of the applicant within the three-year period immediately preceding the date of application. (2) Not later than seven days after receiving a notice of adverse action from a licensing or regulatory authority that is other than the department of mental health and addiction...

...(A) As used in this section, "telehealth services" has the same meaning as in section 4743.09 of the Revised Code. (B) Each community mental health services provider and community addiction services provider shall establish written policies and procedures describing how the provider will ensure that staff persons assisting clients with receiving telehealth services or providing telehealth services are fully trained...

...shall apply to the department of mental health and addiction services. The department shall review all applications received. (C) The department may issue a license to operate an opioid treatment program to a community addiction services provider only if all of the following apply: (1) During the three-year period immediately preceding the date of application, the provider or any owner, sponsor, medical directo...

... Revised Code, the department of mental health and addiction services shall determine whether the location of the proposed program complies with the requirements of division (C)(4) of section 5119.37 of the Revised Code by not being located on a parcel of real estate that is within a radius of five hundred linear feet of the boundaries of a parcel of real estate having situated on it a public or private school, child...

... is certified by the director of mental health and addiction services pursuant to this section. No drivers' intervention program shall be used as an alternative to a term of imprisonment that is imposed pursuant to division (G)(1)(b), (c), (d), or (e) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code. To qualify for certification by the director and to receive funds from the statewide treatment and prevention fund create...

...(A) The department of mental health and addiction services shall monitor the operation of recovery housing in this state by doing either of the following: (1) Certifying recovery housing residences through a process established by the department; (2) Accepting accreditation, or its equivalent for recovery housing, from one or more of the following: (a) The Ohio affiliate of the national alliance for recovery...

...(A) The department of mental health and addiction services shall monitor the establishment of recovery housing residences in this state. (B) For purposes of division (A) of this section, and within the timeframe specified in division (C) of this section, each person or government entity that will operate a recovery housing residence on or after the effective date of this section , including any recovery housing th...

...: (1)(a) If the department of mental health and addiction services certifies recovery housing residences, the recovery housing residence is certified by the department. (b) If the department accepts accreditation or its equivalent from an organization specified in section 5119.39 of the Revised Code, the residence is accredited by such an organization. (2) The recovery housing residence has been operating fo...

...(A) The department of mental health and addiction services shall establish and maintain a registry of recovery housing residences that meet the criteria described in division (A)(1) or (2) of section 5119.392 of the Revised Code. For each residence, the registry shall include all of the following: (1) Any information from the form required by division (B) of section 5119.391 of the Revised Code that the department...

...The director of health shall not require a licensed radon mitigation specialist to be physically present for supervision purposes when radon mitigation is performed. However, the director may require such a specialist to be physically present immediately before and after radon mitigation is performed.

...(A) To protect the health of individuals inhabiting, occupying, or frequenting buildings, the director of health shall adopt rules to implement the requirements of this chapter. All rules adopted under this section shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. (B) The director shall adopt rules establishing criteria and procedures for issuing and renewing licenses under section 3723.06 ...

...y file a complaint with the director of health concerning any radon tester, mitigation specialist, mitigation contractor, or operator of a radon laboratory or a training course approved under section 3723.07 of the Revised Code. The complainant's name shall be confidential and shall not be released without his written consent. The director may investigate complaints and take action under section 3723.06, 3723.07, or...

...The director of health shall maintain a list of all licensed radon testers, mitigation specialists, and mitigation contractors. On request, the director shall provide a copy of all or part of the list to any individual, business entity, or government entity. The director shall not impose a charge for providing the copy that exceeds the actual and necessary expense of copying it.

...(A) The director of health, any employee of the department of health, or any individual, business entity, or government entity with which the director enters into an agreement under division (B)(4) of section 3723.08 of the Revised Code, shall not release information collected pursuant to this chapter concerning a specific building used as a private residence or the real property upon which it is located to anyone ot...

...If the director of health requests to examine such records, no licensed radon tester, mitigation specialist, mitigation contractor, or operator of a radon laboratory or a training course approved under section 3723.07 of the Revised Code shall fail to make available to the director any records pertinent to the activities regulated by this chapter and the rules adopted under it.

...ther moneys received by the director of health for the purposes of this chapter shall be credited to the fund. Moneys credited to the fund shall be used only for administration and enforcement of the requirements of this chapter and the rules adopted under it.

...(A) At the request of the director of health, the attorney general may bring a civil action for appropriate relief, including a temporary restraining order, preliminary or permanent injunction, and civil penalties, in the court of common pleas of the county in which a violation has occurred, is occurring, or is threatening to occur against any individual, business entity, or government entity that has violated, is vi...

...At the request of the director of health, an individual or business entity that is violating or has violated any requirement of this chapter or the rules adopted under it may be prosecuted by the attorney general or by the prosecuting attorney, city director of law, village solicitor, or similar prosecuting authority of the political subdivision in which the violation occurred or is occurring.

...(A) If radon testing or mitigation is performed or any related advice is provided in accordance with any procedures established under federal law or the Revised Code, the liability of a licensed radon tester, mitigation specialist, or mitigation contractor for injury, death, or loss to person or property allegedly caused by or otherwise related to radon testing or mitigation or related advice is limited to liability ...

...43 of the Revised Code, the director of health shall comply with sections 3123.41 to 3123.50 of the Revised Code and any applicable rules adopted under section 3123.63 of the Revised Code with respect to a license issued pursuant to this chapter.

...Whoever violates division (A) of section 3723.02, division (C) or (D) of section 3723.04, section 3723.05, or section 3723.13 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. Each day of violation is a separate offense.

...formed for the purpose of improving the health of the donor; (C) "Plasmapheresis center" means a blood bank or other establishment except a hospital that collects plasma.

...e of approval issued by the director of health. Whoever violates this division is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (B) The director shall adopt such rules as are necessary to carry out this chapter.

...ficate shall be made to the director of health by the operator of each establishment desiring to operate as a plasmapheresis center. The director shall prescribe the application form. The director or his representative shall inspect each establishment prior to certification, and thereafter at least once each year. Plasmapheresis facilities and operations shall be made available for inspection during normal working h...

...evoked, or suspended if the director of health finds that the center is not in compliance with this chapter and the rules adopted thereunder, or if the examination of samples and test results submitted under section 3725.03 of the Revised Code reveals noncompliance with such rules. The director shall notify the owner of the center of the proposed action and the violation or information on which it is based. If the ow...

...r shall be certified by the director of health unless all federal requirements for the collection of plasma by plasmapheresis under the "Public Health Service Act," 58 Stat. 682 (1944) 42 U.S.C. 201, as amended, are met and: (A) A test approved by the director of health for hepatitis B antigen is made on a sample of blood taken from the donor at the time of blood collection; (B) No person who has ever shown a p...

...esis center shall report monthly to the health commissioner of the city or general health district or other administrator of public health appointed under Chapter 3709. of the Revised Code for the health district in which the center is located, the total number of plasma donations received, the total number of hepatitis B antigen positive donations received, and the names of all hepatitis B antigen positive donors. E...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Abortion facility" means any of the following in which abortions are induced or performed: (1) Ambulatory surgical facility as defined in section 3702.30 of the Revised Code; (2) Any other facility in which abortion is legally provided. (B) "Cremation" has the same meaning as in section 4717.01 of the Revised Code. (C) "Fetal remains" means the product of human conception that ...

...(A) Final disposition of fetal remains from a surgical abortion at an abortion facility shall be by cremation or interment. (B) The cremation of fetal remains under division (A) of this section shall be in a crematory facility, in compliance with Chapter 4717. of the Revised Code. (C) As used in this section, "crematory facility" has the same meaning as in section 4717.01 of the Revised Code.

...(A) A pregnant woman who has a surgical abortion has the right to determine both of the following regarding the fetal remains: (1) Whether the final disposition shall be by cremation or interment; (2) The location for the final disposition. (B) A pregnant woman who has a surgical abortion shall be provided with a notification form described in division (A) of section 3726.14 of the Revised Code.

...ng a form prescribed by the director of health under division (C) of section 3726.14 of the Revised Code. The determination must clearly indicate both of the following: (a) Whether the final disposition will be by cremation or interment; (b) Whether the final disposition will be at a location other than one provided by the abortion facility. (2) If a pregnant woman does not desire to exercise the rights under d...

...(A) A pregnant woman who is carrying more than one zygote, blastocyte, embryo, or fetus, who desires to exercise the rights under division (A) of section 3726.03 of the Revised Code, shall complete one form under division (A)(1) of section 3726.04 of the Revised Code for each zygote, blastocyte, embryo, or fetus that will be aborted. (B) A pregnant woman who obtains parental consent under division (B)(1) of section...

...A form used under section 3726.04 of the Revised Code that covers more than one zygote, blastocyte, embryo, or fetus that will be aborted is invalid.

...An abortion facility may not release fetal remains from a surgical abortion, or arrange for the cremation or interment of such fetal remains, until it obtains a final disposition determination made, and if applicable, the consent made, under section 3726.04 or 3726.041 of the Revised Code.