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...(A) If the conditions described in division (B) of section 145.2910 of the Revised Code are met, a member of the public employees retirement system who is not receiving a pension or benefit from the public employees retirement system is eligible to obtain credit for service as a member of the Cincinnati retirement system under this section. (B) A member of the public employees retirement system who has contributions...

...(A) If the conditions described in division (B) of section 145.2910 of the Revised Code are met and a person who is a member or former member of the public employees retirement system but not a current contributor and who is not receiving a pension or benefit from the public employees retirement system elects to receive credit under the Cincinnati retirement system for service for which the person contributed to the ...

...(A) As used in this section, "transferred service credit" means service credit purchased or obtained under section 742.21, 742.214, 742.375, 5505.201, 5505.40, or 5505.41 of the Revised Code prior to the date a member commenced the employment covered by the public employees retirement system for which the member is currently contributing to the system. (B) A member of the public employees retirement system who...

...(A) The public employees retirement board may adopt rules in accordance with section 145.09 of the Revised Code to establish a program under which service credit earned under section 145.33 of the Revised Code or division (A)(2), (B)(1)(b), or (C)(2) of section 145.332 of the Revised Code is treated as service credit earned under division (A)(1), (B)(1)(a), or (C)(1) of section 145.332 of the Revised Code if the memb...

...(A) As used in this section, "workers' compensation" means benefits paid under Chapter 4121. or 4123. of the Revised Code. (B) A member of the public employees retirement system may purchase service credit under this section for any period during which the member was out of service with a public employer and receiving workers' compensation if the member returns to employment covered by this chapter. (C) For credit ...

...(A) When a member has been elected or appointed to an office, the term of which is two or more years, for which an annual salary is established, and in the event that the salary of the office is increased and the member is denied the additional salary by reason of any constitutional provision prohibiting an increase in salary during a term of office, the member may elect to have the amount of the member's and e...

...(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) As used in this section: (1) "Prisoner of war" means any regularly appointed, enrolled, enlisted, or inducted member of the armed forces of the United States, reserves, or Ohio national guard who was captured, separated, and incarcerated by an enemy of the United States. (2) "Reserves" means personnel of the reserve components of any of the armed forces of the United States enumerated in division (A)(1)(a...

...ioned corps of the United States public health service; service as a red cross nurse with the army, navy, air force, or hospital service of the United States, army nurse corps, navy nurse corps, or serving full-time with the American red cross in a combat zone; and any other category of persons designated by the president in time of war or emergency. (B) On re-employment of a member with the same public employer th...

...(A)(1) Except as provided in this section, a member or former member of the public employees retirement system with at least eighteen months of contributing service credit in this system, the state teachers retirement system, the school employees retirement system, the Ohio police and fire pension fund, or the state highway patrol retirement system, after the withdrawal of accumulated contributions and cancellation o...

...(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 ...

...After receiving a request from the state teachers retirement system under division (A) of section 3307.711 or the school employees retirement system under division (A) of section 3309.261 of the Revised Code, the public employees retirement system shall do both of the following: (A) Calculate and certify to the requesting retirement system the cost to a former member to restore service credit under section 145.31 of...

...Eligibility of members of the public employees retirement system, including for members described in section 145.196 of the Revised Code and other than those subject to section 145.332 of the Revised Code, for age and service retirement shall be determined under this section. (A) A member is eligible for age and service retirement under this division if, not later than five years after January 7, 2013, the member ...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the public employees retirement board shall annually increase each allowance, pension, or benefit payable under this chapter. Until the last day of December of the fifth full calendar year after the effective date of this amendment, the increase shall be three per cent. For each succeeding calendar year, the increase shall be as follows: (1) For each allowance, ...

...(A)(1) Except as provided in sections 145.332 and 145.335 of the Revised Code, when a member retires on age and service retirement, the member's total annual single lifetime allowance shall be an amount adjusted in accordance with division (A)(2) or (B) of this section and determined by multiplying the member's total service credit by the following: (a) If the member is eligible for age and service retirement unde...

...(A) A recipient of a disability allowance under section 145.361 of the Revised Code who is subject to division (C)(3) of that section may make application for age and service retirement under this section. Retirement shall be effective on the first day of the first month following the last day for which the disability allowance is paid. (B) The annual allowance payable under this section shall consist of the sum o...

...er, special police officer for a mental health institution, special police officer for an institution for persons with developmental disabilities, or municipal police officer on or after December 15, 1988; (f) Any person who originally is employed as a state university law enforcement officer on or after November 6, 1996; (g) Any person who is originally employed as a state university law enforcement officer by...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Retirement allowance" means any of the following as appropriate: (a) An allowance calculated under section 145.33, 145.332, or 145.335 of the Revised Code prior to any reduction for early retirement or election under section 145.46 of the Revised Code of a plan of payment and exclusive of any amounts payable under divisions (I)(2)(b) and (c) or (I)(3)(b) and (c) of section 145....

...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) This section applies only to members of the public employees retirement system participating in the PERS combined plan, as defined in section 145.196 of the Revised Code, that was consolidated by the system with the PERS defined benefit plan under that section. (B)(1) When a member described in section 145.196 of the Revised Code retires on age and service retirement, the total annual single lifetime allowance...

...(A) As used in this section and sections 145.362 and 145.363 of the Revised Code: (1) "Examining physician" means a physician appointed by the public employees retirement board to conduct a medical examination of a disability benefit applicant or recipient. (2) "Medical consultant" means a physician appointed by the board to review a member's application for a disability benefit or an appeal of a denial or term...

...Not later than March 1, 2000, and each first day of March thereafter, the public employees retirement board shall make and submit a report for the preceding fiscal year of the disability retirement experience of each employer. The report shall specify the total number of disability applications submitted, the status of each application as of the last day of the fiscal year, total applications granted or denied, and t...

...A member who has elected disability coverage under this section, has not attained the applicable age, and is determined by the public employees retirement board under section 145.35 of the Revised Code to qualify for a disability benefit shall be retired on disability under this section. The applicable age is sixty if the member is described in division (A) or (B) of section 145.32 or division (A), (B), or (E...

...(A) A member with disability coverage under this section who is determined by the public employees retirement board under section 145.35 of the Revised Code to qualify for a disability benefit shall receive a disability allowance under this section. The allowance shall be an annual amount equal to the greater of the following: (1) Forty-five per cent of the member's final average salary; (2) The member's total ...

...A disability benefit recipient whose application for a disability benefit was received by the public employees retirement system before January 7, 2013, shall, regardless of when the disability occurred, retain membership status and shall be considered on leave of absence from employment during the first five years following the effective date of a disability benefit, notwithstanding any contrary provisions in this c...

...A local hospital shall not be further than thirty miles from an ambulatory surgical facility with which the local hospital has a written transfer agreement under section 3702.303 of the Revised Code.

...acuation system. (C) The director of health may adopt any rules the director considers necessary to implement this section. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.

... in the state treasury. The director of health shall use the fund to administer and enforce this section and sections 3702.30, 3702.301, 3702.32, and 3702.33 of the Revised Code and rules adopted pursuant to those sections. The director shall deposit in the fund any moneys collected pursuant to this section or section 3702.32 of the Revised Code. All investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to the fund. (...

...(A) If the director of health determines that a health care facility is operating without a license in violation of division (E)(1) of section 3702.30 of the Revised Code, the director shall do one or more of the following: (1) Provide an opportunity for the health care facility to apply for a license within a specified time, not exceeding thirty days after the date of the facility's receipt of the order; (2) Issue...

...Any person who believes a health care facility is operating without a license in violation of division (E) of section 3702.30 of the Revised Code may petition the court of common pleas of the county in which the facility is located for an order enjoining the facility from continuing to operate without a license. The court shall grant the order on a showing that the facility named in the petition is violating division...

...thing center notifies the department of health in writing that it has a faith-based objection to the requirement.

...use this information to speak with your health care provider about your own risk for breast cancer. At that time, ask your health care provider if more screening tests might be useful based on your risk. A report of your mammogram results was sent to your health care provider." As required by 21 C.F.R. 900.12(c)(3), the facility shall send to the patient's health care provider, if known, a copy of the written repor...

...ten approval granted by the director of health to an applicant to authorize conducting a reviewable activity. (D) "Service area" means the current and projected primary and secondary service areas to which the long-term care facility is, or will be, providing long-term care services. (E) "Primary service area" means the geographic region, usually comprised of the Ohio zip code in which the long-term care facility...

...constitute an imminent threat to public health or safety and are in violation of federal, state, or local fire, building, or safety statutes, ordinances, rules, or regulations; (5) Acquisition of an existing long-term care facility that does not involve a change in the number of the beds; (6) Mergers, consolidations, or other corporate reorganizations of long-term care facilities that do not involve a change in...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the addition of twenty or fewer long-term care beds to a nursing home is not a reviewable activity under sections 3702.51 to 3702.62 of the Revised Code, and therefore does not require a certificate of need, if all of the following apply: (1) The nursing home is licensed under section 3721.02 of the Revised Code or by a political subdivision certified under se...

...on and rules adopted by the director of health. (1) No hospital recategorizing beds shall apply for a certificate of need for more than twenty skilled nursing beds. (2) No beds for which a certificate of need is requested under this division shall be reviewed under or counted in any formula developed under rules adopted by the director for the purpose of determining the number of long-term care beds that may be n...

...te of need pending with the director of health may revise the application to change the site of the proposed project unless either of the following applies: (A) The director, under section 3702.52 of the Revised Code, has mailed the applicant a written notice that the application is complete. (B) The application is subject to a comparative review under section 3702.593 of the Revised Code. The only revision ...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, a certificate of need is not transferable prior to the completion of the reviewable activity for which it was granted. If any person holding a certificate of need transfers the certificate of need to another person before the reviewable activity is completed, or enters into an agreement that contemplates the transfer of the certificate of need on the comp...

... months after the date the director of health mails the notice that the certificate of need has been granted or, if the grant or denial of the certificate of need is appealed under section 3702.60 of the Revised Code, not later than twenty-four months after issuance of an order granting the certificate that is not subject to further appeal, each person holding a certificate of need granted shall: (1) If the p...

...ed shall demonstrate to the director of health, in the form and manner required by rules adopted under section 3702.57 of the Revised Code, that reasonable progress is being made toward the completion of the reviewable activity. If the director determines, in accordance with standards specified in the rules, that reasonable progress is not being made, the director shall withdraw the certificate of need.

...n (B) of this section, the director of health shall accept an application for a replacement certificate of need for an activity described in division (A) of section 3702.511 of the Revised Code to replace an approved certificate of need if all of the following conditions are met: (1) The applicant requests the replacement certificate of need so that the reviewable activity for which the approved certificate ...

...A bed described in division (O)(5) of section 3702.51 of the Revised Code may be converted to a bed described in division (O)(1), (2), (3), or (4) of that section only as provided in the certificate of need under which the beds were approved or its replacement certificate of need.

...y has been withdrawn by the director of health under section 3702.52 or 3702.525 of the Revised Code. No person shall carry out a reviewable activity if the certificate of need authorizing that activity is void pursuant to section 3702.523 of the Revised Code or has expired pursuant to section 3702.524 of the Revised Code. (B) No person shall separate portions of any proposal for any reviewable activity to evade the...

...The director of health shall evaluate and may investigate evidence that appears to demonstrate that any person has violated section 3702.53 of the Revised Code. If the director elects to conduct an investigation, the director shall mail to the alleged violator by certified mail, return receipt requested, a notice that an investigation is underway. When conducting an investigation under this section, the direc...

...When the director of health determines that a person has violated section 3702.53 of the Revised Code, the director shall send a notice to the person by certified mail, return receipt requested, specifying the activity constituting the violation and the penalties imposed under section 3702.54 of the Revised Code.

...this section apply when the director of health determines that a person has violated section 3702.53 of the Revised Code. (A) The director shall impose a civil penalty on the person in an amount equal to the greatest of the following: (1) Three thousand dollars; (2) Five per cent of the operating cost of the activity that constitutes the violation during the period of time it was conducted in violation of se...

....60 of the Revised Code the director of health's determination that a violation has occurred, not later than sixty days after the issuance of an order upholding the director's determination that is not subject to further appeal. The civil penalties shall be paid to the director. The director shall deposit them into the certificate of need fund created by section 3702.52 of the Revised Code.

...A person that the director of health determines has violated section 3702.53 of the Revised Code shall cease conducting the activity that constitutes the violation or utilizing the facility resulting from the violation not later than thirty days after the person receives the notice mailed under section 3702.532 of the Revised Code or, if the person appeals the director's determination under section 3702.60 of the Rev...

...No third-party payer or other person is required to pay, and no person shall seek or accept payment or reimbursement for, any service rendered or costs incurred in conducting an activity during the period of time in which the activity was conducted in violation of section 3702.53 of the Revised Code. Each person that accepts any amount in violation of this division shall refund that amount on request of the per...

...(A) The director of health shall adopt rules establishing procedures and criteria for reviews of applications for certificates of need and issuance, denial, or withdrawal of certificates. (1) In adopting rules that establish criteria for reviews of applications of certificates of need, the director shall consider the availability of and need for long-term care beds to provide care and treatment to persons diagnose...