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...(A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, no person shall represent that the person is a first responder, an emergency medical technician-basic or EMT-basic, an emergency medical technician-intermediate or EMT-I, or an emergency medical technician-paramedic or paramedic unless appropriately certified under section 4765.30 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) No person shall operate an emergency medical service...

...Nothing in this chapter prevents or restricts the practice, services, or activities of any registered nurse practicing within the scope of the registered nurse's practice. Nothing in this chapter prevents or restricts the practice, services, or activities of any physician assistant practicing in accordance with a supervision agreement entered into under section 4730.19 of the Revised Code, including, if applicable,...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Veterinarian" means an individual licensed under Chapter 4741. of the Revised Code to practice veterinary medicine. (2) "Police dog" has the same meaning as in section 2921.321 of the Revised Code. (3) "Overdose reversal drug" has the same meaning as in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code. (B) In the course of an emergency medical response, fire response, or response to a...

...Notwithstanding any conflicting provision of the Revised Code, an emergency medical technician-basic, emergency medical technician-intermediate, or emergency medical technician-paramedic may administer a test for COVID-19 and may collect and label specimens from a test for COVID-19 if that individual has received proper training to engage in those activities.

...(A) The executive director of the state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services, with the advice and counsel of the firefighter and fire safety inspector training committee of the state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services, shall assist in the establishment and maintenance by any state agency, or any county, township, city, village, school district, or educational servic...

...On receipt of a notice pursuant to section 3123.43 of the Revised Code, the state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services 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 certificate to practice issued pursuant to this chapter.

...(A) As used in this section, "fetal death" has the same meaning as in section 3705.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Emergency medical service personnel shall dispose of the product of a fetal death in the manner set forth for the disposition of fetal remains in the "emergency medical technician-basic: national standard curriculum."

...The state board of emergency medical services shall comply with section 4776.20 of the Revised Code.

...The state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services shall not administer laws and rules exceeding the statutory authority provided to the board under Chapters 4765. and 4766. of the Revised Code.

...Whoever violates division (A),(B), or (C) of section 4765.50 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense. On each subsequent offense, such person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.

...(A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, a freestanding birthing center is not required to obtain a license under section 3702.30 of the Revised Code if all of the following are the case: (1) A religious denomination, sect, or group owns and operates the center. (2) Requiring that the center be licensed significantly abridges or infringes on the religious practices or beliefs of that religious denomi...

...(A)(1) The director of health may grant a variance from the written transfer agreement requirement of section 3702.303 of the Revised Code if the ambulatory surgical facility submits to the director a complete variance application, prescribed by the director, and the director determines after reviewing the application that the facility is capable of achieving the purpose of a written transfer agreement in the absence...

...(A) The quality monitoring and inspection fund is hereby created 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 inv...

...The director of health shall administer a state certificate of need program in accordance with sections 3702.51 to 3702.62 of the Revised Code and rules adopted under those sections. Administration of the program shall include both a standard review process and an expedited review process. (A) The director shall issue rulings on whether a particular proposed project is a reviewable activity. The director shall iss...

...Divisions (A) and (B) of 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 con...

...The department of health shall administer a program, to be known as the J-1 visa waiver program, for recruiting physicians who received graduate medical education or training in the United States but are not citizens of the United States to serve in areas of the state designated by the United States secretary of health and human services as health professional shortage areas under the "Public Health Service Act," 88 ...

...(A) An individual who has signed a letter of intent under section 3702.985 of the Revised Code and the director of health may enter into a contract for the applicant's participation in the chiropractic loan repayment program. A lending institution may also be a party to the contract. (B) The contract shall include all of the following obligations: (1) The individual agrees to provide chiropractic services in the ...

...(A) In addition to any other exemption provided in this chapter or rules adopted under it, an air contaminant source is exempt from this chapter and rules adopted under it if the emissions of particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, organic compounds, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, lead, or any other air contaminant from that source do not exceed ten pounds per day, as verified in accordance with division (C) of this s...

...(A) Within sixty days after the director of environmental protection or the director's agent or authorized representative receives an application for the issuance of an initial permit to operate, or for the modification or renewal of such a permit, pursuant to rules adopted under division (G) of section 3704.03 of the Revised Code, the director shall determine whether the application is substantially complete or ma...

...(A) No person shall cause, permit, or allow emission of an air contaminant in violation of any rule adopted by the director of environmental protection under division (E) of section 3704.03 of the Revised Code unless the person is the holder of a variance that is issued under division (H) of that section and consistent with the federal Clean Air Act permitting the emission of the contaminant in excess of that permitt...

...her the person is hospitalized or has a disability or whether the person is ambulatory or using a wheelchair. (E) "Ambulette" means a motor vehicle that is specifically designed, constructed, or modified and equipped and is intended to be used for transportation upon the streets or highways of this state of persons who require use of a wheelchair or other mobility aid. (F) "Basic life support" means treatment tha...

...(A) The state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services shall adopt rules, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, implementing the requirements of this chapter. The rules shall include provisions relating to the following: (1) Requirements for an emergency medical service organization to receive a permit for an ambulance or nontransport vehicle; (2) Requirements for an emerg...

...(A)(1) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, unless a person is an emergency medical service organization licensed under division (B) or an air medical service organization licensed under division (D) of this section, no person shall engage in, or profess to engage in, the business or service in this state of providing emergency medical transportation to an individual who is experiencing a medical emergency. ...

...(A) The state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services shall establish by rule a license fee, a permit fee for each ambulance, ambulette, rotorcraft air ambulance, fixed wing air ambulance, and nontransport vehicle owned or leased by the licensee that is or will be used as provided in section 4766.07 of the Revised Code, and fees for renewals of licenses and permits, taking into considerat...

...(A)(1) Every emergency medical service organization and nonemergency medical service organization licensee under this chapter shall furnish adequate evidence of liability insurance coverage, in an amount of not less than five hundred thousand dollars per occurrence and not less than five hundred thousand dollars in the aggregate, for any cause for which the licensee would be liable. (2) Every air medical service or...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided by rule of the state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services, each emergency medical service organization, nonemergency medical service organization, and air medical service organization subject to licensure under this chapter shall possess a valid permit for each ambulance, ambulette, rotorcraft air ambulance, fixed wing air ambulance, and nontransport vehicle i...

...(A) The state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services, pursuant to an adjudication conducted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, may suspend or revoke any license or permit or renewal thereof issued under this chapter for any one or combination of the following causes: (1) Violation of this chapter or any rule adopted thereunder; (2) Refusal to permit the board to inspec...

...(A) There is hereby created within the environmental protection agency the small business stationary source technical and environmental compliance assistance council. The council shall consist of the following seven members: (1) Two members who are not owners or representatives of owners of small business stationary sources to represent the general public, to be appointed by the governor; (2) Four members who are o...

...(A) For purposes of this section notwithstanding section 3705.01 of the Revised Code, "fetal death" does not include death of the product of human conception prior to twenty weeks of gestation. (B) Each death or fetal death that occurs in this state shall be registered with the local registrar of vital statistics of the district in which the death or fetal death occurred, by the funeral director or other person in...

...(A) The fetal death of the product of human conception of at least twenty weeks of gestation shall be registered on a fetal death certificate. On application of the funeral director or either parent, the fetal death of the product of human conception prior to twenty weeks of gestation shall be registered on a fetal death certificate, except that the fetal death certificate shall not list the cause of death. The ...

...This chapter does not apply to any of the following: (A) A person rendering services with an ambulance in the event of a disaster situation when licensees' vehicles based in the locality of the disaster situation are incapacitated or insufficient in number to render the services needed; (B) Any person operating an ambulance, ambulette, rotorcraft air ambulance, or fixed wing air ambulance outside this state unles...

...This chapter does not invalidate any ordinance or resolution adopted by a municipal corporation that establishes standards for the licensure of emergency medical service organizations as basic life-support, intermediate life-support, or advanced life-support service organizations that have their principal places of business located within the limits of the municipal corporation, as long as the licensure standar...

...(A) The state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services may investigate alleged violations of this chapter or the rules adopted under it and may investigate any complaints received regarding alleged violations. In addition to any other remedies available and regardless of whether an adequate remedy at law exists, the board may apply to the court of common pleas in the county where a violation o...

...(A) No person shall do any of the following: (1) Purposely make any false statement in a certificate, record, or report required by this chapter or in an application or amendment of it, or purposely supply false information with the intent that that information be used in the preparation of any such report, record, or certificate, or amendment of it; (2) Without lawful authority and with intent to deceive, co...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Certified nurse-midwife," "clinical nurse specialist," and "certified nurse practitioner" have the same meanings as in section 4723.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Freestanding birthing center" has the same meaning as in section 3701.503 of the Revised Code. (3) "Hospital" has the same meaning as in section 3722.01 of the Revised Code. (4) "Physician" means an individual aut...

...(A) Except as provided in this section, records received and information assembled by the birth defects information system pursuant to section 3705.30 of the Revised Code are confidential medical records. (B)(1) The director of health may use information assembled by the system to notify parents, guardians, and custodians of children with congenital anomalies or abnormal conditions of medical care and other servic...

...(A) The Ohio air quality development authority may enter into an agreement with the legislative authority of a municipal corporation or a board of township trustees that provides for all of the following: (1) The authority may issue revenue bonds or notes under section 3706.05 of the Revised Code for the purpose of paying any part of the cost of an air quality facility described under division (G)(12) of section 3...

...(A)(1) If a board of health establishes a fetal-infant mortality review board under section 3707.71 of the Revised Code, the board, by a majority vote of a quorum of its members, shall select the board's members. Members may include the following professionals or individuals representing the following constituencies: (a) Fetal-infant mortality review coordinators; (b) Physicians who are board-certified in obste...

...(A) A board of health of a city or general health district or the authority having the duties of a board of health under section 3709.05 of the Revised Code may enter into a contract to provide some or all public health services for a board of health of another city or general health district. (B) Each contract entered under division (A) of this section shall do all of the following: (1) State the amount of ...

...If a county, township, joint ambulance district, or joint emergency medical services district chooses to have the state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services license its emergency medical service organizations and issue permits for its vehicles pursuant to this chapter, except as may be otherwise provided, all provisions of this chapter and all rules adopted by the board thereunder are ...

...The state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services, by endorsement, may license and issue vehicle permits to an emergency medical service organization or a nonemergency medical service organization that is regulated by another state. To qualify for a license and vehicle permits by endorsement, an organization must submit evidence satisfactory to the board that it has met standards in anothe...

...(A) An ambulette service provider described in division (M) or (N) of section 4766.09 of the Revised Code or the entity responsible for a vehicle described in division (O) of section 4766.09 of the Revised Code that provides ambulette services shall do all of the following: (1) Make available to all its ambulette drivers while operating ambulette vehicles a means of two-way communication using either ambulette vehic...

...(A) An applicant for employment as an ambulette driver with an organization licensed pursuant to this chapter shall submit proof to the organization of, or give consent to the employer to obtain, all of the following: (1)(a) A valid driver's license issued pursuant to Chapter 4506. or 4507. of the Revised Code, or its equivalent, if the applicant is a resident of another state; (b) A recent certified abstract...

...An air medical service organization licensed under this chapter that uses a rotorcraft or fixed wing air ambulance shall do both of the following: (A) Use at a minimum a physician who holds a current, valid license issued under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code or registered nurse who holds a current, valid license issued under Chapter 4723. of the Revised Code, and a paramedic or one other person, designated by th...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Household sewage treatment system" means any sewage treatment system, or part of such a system, for a single-family, two-family, or three-family dwelling that receives sewage. (2) "Sewage" means liquid waste containing animal or vegetable matter in suspension or solution that originates from humans and human activities. "Sewage" includes liquids containing household chemicals i...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no person shall engage in any asbestos hazard abatement activities in this state unless licensed or certified pursuant to this chapter. (B) To apply for licensure as an asbestos hazard abatement contractor or certification as an asbestos hazard abatement specialist, an asbestos hazard evaluation specialist, an asbestos hazard abatement project designer, or an asbest...

...Any person or public agency licensed under section 3712.04 of the Revised Code to provide a hospice care program shall: (A) Provide a planned and continuous hospice care program, the medical components of which shall be under the direction of a physician; (B) Ensure that care is available twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week; (C) Establish an interdisciplinary plan of care for each hospice patient and ...

...(A) In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the superintendent of industrial compliance shall: (1) Adopt rules pertaining to the definition, name, and description of materials necessary to carry out this chapter; (2) Determine the testing standards, fees, and charges to be paid for making any test or analysis required pursuant to section 3713.08 of the Revised Code. (B) In accordance with Chapter 119....

...(A) Applications to register to import, manufacture, renovate, wholesale, make, or reupholster stuffed toys or bedding in this state shall be made in writing on forms provided by the superintendent of industrial compliance. The application shall be accompanied by a registration fee of fifty dollars per person unless the applicant engages only in renovation, in which case the registration fee shall be thirty-five doll...

...(A) As used in this chapter: (1) "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, or association. (2) "Food" means: (a) Articles used for food or drink for humans or animals; (b) Chewing gum; (c) Articles used for components of any such articles. (3) "Drug" means: (a) Articles recognized in the United States pharmacopoeia and national formulary, or any supplement to them; (b) Articles intended for use ...