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...(A) Infectious wastes shall be segregated, managed, treated, and disposed of in accordance with rules adopted under this section. (B) The director of environmental protection, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt rules necessary or appropriate to protect human health or safety or the environment that do both of the following: (1) Establish standards for generators of infectious waste...

...ubdivision, or any person exempted from taxation by section 5709.07 or 5709.12 of the Revised Code, from any fee required by this section; (3) Provide for the waiver of any fee, or any part thereof, otherwise required by this section whenever the director determines that the imposition of the fee would constitute an unreasonable cost of doing business for any applicant, class of applicants, or other person subject...

... state or its political subdivisions to tax or impose fees on the waste managed at any facility within its borders; (8) Requires a party state to enter into any agreement with the United States nuclear regulatory commission; or (9) Alters or limits liability of transporters of waste or owners and operators of sites for their acts, omissions, conduct, or relationships in accordance with applicable laws. (B) For pur...

...(A) The governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint a radiation advisory council, which shall consist of the following members: (1) One individual who has recognized ability and credentials in the field of medical radiation physics; (2) One individual who has recognized ability and credentials in the field of health physics; (3) One individual holding the degree of doctor of medicine o...

...(A) There is hereby created the emergency response commission consisting of the directors of environmental protection and health, the chairperson of the public utilities commission, the fire marshal, the director of public safety, the director of transportation, the director of natural resources, the superintendent of the highway patrol, and the attorney general as members ex officio, or their designees; notwithstand...

...f. Under the protocol, an advocate is exempt from using personal protective equipment while in the care setting if the advocate presents to the care setting a practitioner's note documenting that such use conflicts with, or is not required because of, the advocate's own physical or mental health condition. (3) In the event an infectious disease outbreak is serious enough to require the staff of a congregate care ...

...(A) As used in this section: (2) "Hospital" has the same meaning as in section 3722.01 of the Revised Code and includes a hospital owned or operated by the United States department of veterans affairs. (3) "Inpatient facility" means either or both of the following: (a) A skilled nursing facility as defined in section 5165.01 of the Revised Code; (b) A freestanding inpatient rehabilitation facility licensed un...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Administrative safeguards," "physical safeguards," and "technical safeguards" have the same meanings as in 45 C.F.R. 164.304. (B) "Covered entity," "disclosure," "health care provider," "health information," "individually identifiable health information," "protected health information," and "use" have the same meanings as in 45 C.F.R. 160.103. (C) "Designated record set" has the...

...cies, records and information otherwise exempt from disclosure; iii. Guidelines for entering into agreements with federal and state agencies to receive or exchange information or records subject to nondisclosure and confidentiality provisions. b. Provide a process for commission review of submitted treatments and therapeutic protocols for curing diseases that includes the following: i. An opportunity for an app...

...As used in sections 3904.01 to 3904.22 of the Revised Code: (A)(1) "Adverse underwriting decision" means any of the following actions with respect to insurance transactions involving life, health, or disability insurance coverage that is individually underwritten: (a) A declination of insurance coverage; (b) A termination of insurance coverage; (c) Failure of an agent to apply for insurance coverage with a sp...

...The Commission shall be exempt from all taxation in and by the Compacting States. 5. The Commission shall not pledge the credit of any Compacting State, except by and with the appropriate legal authority of that Compacting State. 6. The Commission shall keep complete and accurate accounts of all its internal receipts, including grants and donations, and disbursements of all funds under its control. The internal fin...

...(A) Each health plan issuer shall include a description of its external review procedures, including the superintendent's contractual review, in, or attached to, the policy, certificate, membership booklet, or outline of coverage, or other evidence of coverage it provides to covered persons. This disclosure shall be in a form prescribed by the superintendent in any associated rules, policies, or procedures. ...

...Except as provided in section 3923.07 of the Revised Code, every policy of sickness and accident insurance delivered, issued for delivery, or used in this state shall contain the standard provisions specified in this section in the words in which the same appear in this section. Such standard provisions shall be preceded individually by the caption appearing in this section or, at the option of the insurer, by such a...

...(A) Every policy of group sickness and accident insurance providing hospital, surgical, or medical expense coverage for other than specific diseases or accidents only, and delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed in this state on or after January 1, 1979, and that provides coverage for mental or emotional disorders, shall provide benefits for services on an outpatient basis for each eligible person under the ...

...(A)(1) Every policy of group sickness and accident insurance providing hospital, surgical, or medical expense coverage for other than specific diseases or accidents only, and delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed in this state on or after January 1, 1979, shall provide for each eligible person under the policy who resides in this state, outpatient, inpatient, and intermediate primary care benefits for alco...

...The indebtedness for outstanding losses under insurance against loss or damage resulting from accident to, or injuries suffered by, an employee or other person, for which the insured is liable, and under insurance against loss from liability on account of the death of or injury to an employee, not caused by the negligence of the employer, shall be determined as set forth in this section. Each corporation which write...

...(A)(1) A board of governors consisting of nine members shall govern the medical liability underwriting association. The members shall be appointed by the governor with the advice of the superintendent of insurance. Five shall be selected from insurers licensed to write and writing liability insurance in this state, at least two of which insurers must write medical liability insurance in this state. One shall be a lic...

...(A) Annually on or before the first day of March, the medical liability underwriting association and the stabilization reserve fund shall file in the office of the superintendent of insurance a statement or statements containing information with respect to their transactions, condition, operations, and affairs during the preceding year. The statement or statements shall contain such matters and information as are pre...

...Individuals, partnerships, and corporations of this state, designated in sections 3931.01 to 3931.12 of the Revised Code, as "subscribers," may exchange reciprocal or interinsurance contracts with each other, and with individuals, partnerships, and corporations of other states, districts, provinces, and countries, providing indemnity among themselves from any loss which may be legally insured against by any fire or c...

...Sections 3955.01 to 3955.19 of the Revised Code apply to all kinds of direct insurance, except: (A) Title insurance; (B) Fidelity or surety bonds, or any other bonding obligations; (C) Credit insurance, vendors' single interest insurance, collateral protection insurance, or any similar insurance protecting the interests of a creditor arising out of a creditor-debtor transaction; (D) Mortgage guaranty, financial g...

...(A)(1) If an amendment to a health care contract is not a material amendment, the contracting entity shall provide the participating provider notice of the amendment at least fifteen days prior to the effective date of the amendment. The contracting entity shall provide all other notices to the participating provider pursuant to the health care contract. (2) A material amendment to a health care contract shall...

...(A) A pet insurance policy shall include all of the following: (1) Disclosure of whether the pet insurance policy excludes coverage due to any of the following: (a) A preexisting condition; (b) A hereditary disorder; (c) A congenital anomaly or disorder; (d) A chronic condition. (2) Disclosure of whether the pet insurance policy excludes coverage for any reason other than those listed in division (A)(1) o...

...A child working in or in connection with a factory, workshop, business office, telephone or telegraph office, restaurant, bakery, hotel, apartment house, or mercantile or other establishment, or in the distribution or transmission of merchandise or messages, who appears to an inspector of workshops and factories to be under the legal age, or refuses to give to such inspector his name, age, and place of residence, sh...

...As used in sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code: (A) "Public authority" means any officer, board, or commission of the state, or any political subdivision of the state, authorized to enter into a contract for the construction of a public improvement or to construct the same by the direct employment of labor, or any institution supported in whole or in part by public funds and said sections apply to expend...

...(A) The procedures contained in this section govern the settlement of disputes between an exclusive representative and a public employer concerning the termination or modification of an existing collective bargaining agreement or negotiation of a successor agreement, or the negotiation of an initial collective bargaining agreement. (B)(1) In those cases where there exists a collective bargaining agreement, any pub...