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...A kinship caregiver, on obtaining foster home certification under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code, shall receive foster care maintenance payments equal to the custodial agency rate as determined by the certifying agency, which is either the custodial agency, private child placing agency, or private non-custodial agency.

...d youth, rehabilitation and correction, mental health and addiction services, youth services, and education and workforce, or their designees; (5) One representative of the Ohio family and children first cabinet council created under section 121.37 of the Revised Code appointed by the chairperson of the council; (6) Five representatives of the general public appointed by the governor. These members shall have e...

...(A) The Ohio commission on fatherhood shall elect a chairperson from among its members in every odd-numbered year. (B) The governor shall appoint an individual to serve as the commission's executive director. The executive director shall serve at the pleasure of the governor and shall report to the director of children and youth or the director's designee. The governor shall fix the executive director's salary ...

...The Ohio commission on fatherhood shall do both of the following: (A) Organize a state summit on fatherhood every four years; (B) Prepare a report each year that does the following: (1) Identifies resources available to fund fatherhood-related programs and explores the creation of initiatives to do the following: (a) Build the parenting skills of fathers; (b) Provide employment-related services for low...

...Sections 101.82 to 101.87 of the Revised Code do not apply to the Ohio commission on fatherhood.

...(A) Subject to division (E) of section 5101.801 of the Revised Code, the Ohio commission on fatherhood, created under section 5180.70 of the Revised Code, may make recommendations to the director of children and youth concerning the funding, approval, and implementation of fatherhood programs in this state that meet at least one of the four purposes of the temporary assistance for needy families block grant, as speci...

...(A) The department of children and youth, through the Ohio commission on fatherhood, must contract for the development and implementation of the responsible fatherhood initiative (RFI). The initiative must provide an opportunity for every father in the state to obtain information and inspiration that will motivate and enable him to enhance his abilities as a father, recognizing that some fathers have greater challeng...

...om a period of incarceration, accessing health care, understanding child development, and enhancing parenting skills. Services provided must be tailored to the needs of the father being served. Case management services must be provided by the grant recipient, either directly or by subcontract, to the fathers who are served by the grants under this section. If the father receiving case management services through a gr...

...(A) A nonprofit organization that receives a grant under section 5180.706 of the Revised Code must address the unique needs of the fathers of children who are served by the organization. The organization must do all of the following: (1) Conduct an initial assessment of its engagement with those fathers and its provision of and referral to father-oriented services; (2) Create an action plan to address any gaps id...

..., counseling, diapers, food, furniture, health care, parenting classes, postpartum recovery, shelter, and any other supportive services, programs, or related outreach; (4) Does not charge pregnant women and parents or other relatives caring for children twelve months of age or younger a fee for any services received; (5) Is not involved in or associated with any abortion activities, including providing abortion...

...(A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the "choose life" fund. The fund shall consist of the contributions that are paid to the registrar of motor vehicles by applicants who voluntarily elect to obtain "choose life" license plates pursuant to section 4503.91 of the Revised Code and any money returned to the fund under division (E)(1)(d) of this section. All investment earnings of the fund shall be credited...

...To increase participation in evidence-based parenting education programs, the department of children and youth shall ensure state departments, agencies, and boards have information to communicate with parents, caregivers, and child care providers about such programs to promote their benefits, including their parenting, caregiving, and educational resources.

...(A) Whoever violates division (B) of section 5180.275 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree. (B) Whoever violates section 5180.403 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.

...the state for the exercise of any governmental or quasi-governmental function of state government, regardless of the funding source for that entity, other than any state institution of higher education, the office of the governor, lieutenant governor, auditor of state, treasurer of state, secretary of state, or attorney general, the general assembly, the courts or any judicial agency, or any state retirement system o...

...(A) Specifications describing the character of the articles that the department of transportation is proposing to purchase, and the conditions governing shipment and delivery, shall be kept on file at the department and open to public inspection throughout the time during which an invitation to bidders is required to be posted. The director of transportation may require bids to be accompanied by a certified che...

...The director of transportation may authorize district deputy directors of transportation to purchase materials, small tools, repair parts for machinery and equipment, and supplies at their respective offices. Before conferring such authority upon deputies, the director shall adopt a regulation prescribing the authority to the deputies in this respect, the conditions under which and the manner in which such purchases ...

...amily which has been displaced by governmental action or which occupies substandard housing as certified by such political subdivision, without advertising for bids. Any such transfers shall be for such consideration as shall be determined by the director to be fair and reasonable, and shall be upon such terms and specifications with respect to performance and indemnity as shall be determined necessary by the directo...

...(A) If any article furnished by a vendor in the performance of a contract or purchase order fails to conform to the specifications and conditions prescribed by the director of transportation or to any sample of the article submitted by the vendor, the director may reject the article. Without additional expense to the department of transportation, the vendor shall reclaim and remove any rejected article that has been ...

...(A) The director of transportation may debar a vendor from consideration for contract awards upon a finding based upon a reasonable belief that the vendor has done any of the following: (1) Abused the solicitation process by repeatedly withdrawing bids before purchase orders or contracts are issued or failing to accept orders based upon firm bids; (2) Failed to substantially perform a contract according to its te...

...(A) The director of transportation shall adopt a policy for use by the department of transportation in giving preference to United States products. The policy shall include criteria and procedures for determining that a product is produced or mined in the United States and shall address information to be submitted by bidders as to the nature of the product and the location where it is produced or mined. The policy ma...

...The board of county commissioners may purchase such machinery, tools, or other equipment, including special wearing apparel, for the construction, improvement, maintenance, or repair of the highways, bridges, and culverts under its jurisdiction as it deems necessary. The board may also purchase, hire, or lease automobiles, motorcycles, or other conveyances and maintain them for the use of the county engineer and the ...

...(A) Boards of county commissioners, in the purchase of machinery, tools, trucks, and other equipment for use in constructing, maintaining, and repairing roads, may make such purchases upon the following terms: not less than one-fourth of the purchase price shall be paid in cash, and the remainder of the purchase price shall be paid in not more than five equal annual installments, except that if the board sells, as au...

...(A) A board of township trustees may purchase machinery, tools, trucks, and other equipment for use in constructing, maintaining, and repairing roads and, subject to Chapter 133. of the Revised Code, may issue for that purpose general obligation bonds of the township for which the full faith and credit of the township shall be pledged. (B) A board of township trustees may enter into a lease for machinery, tools, tru...

...The board of county commissioners or the county engineer, when authorized by the board of county commissioners or the board of township trustees, may purchase from any public institution within the state any road material, machinery, tools, or equipment, quarried, mined, prepared, or manufactured by such institution.

...The board of county commissioners or board of township trustees may contract for and purchase such material as is necessary for the purpose of constructing, improving, maintaining, or repairing any highways, bridges, or culverts within the county, and may also appropriate additional land necessary for cuts and fills together with a right of way to or from such land for the removal of material. If the board of county ...

...The state board of pharmacy shall, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, adopt rules as necessary to give effect to sections 3715.89 and 3715.90 of the Revised Code.

...The state board of pharmacy, any manufacturer of dangerous drugs, terminal distributor of dangerous drugs, or wholesale distributor of dangerous drugs that in good faith donates a dangerous drug under section 3715.89 of the Revised Code, and any pharmacy school that accepts a dangerous drug donation under section 3715.90 of the Revised Code, shall not, in the absence of bad faith, be subject to any of the f...

...(A) Whoever violates section 3715.13 or 3715.38 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. (B) Whoever violates section 3715.22, 3715.25, or 3715.27 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (C) Whoever violates section 3715.23 or 3715.34 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree. (D) Whoever violates section 3715.52 or 3715.65 of the Revised Code ...

...A) "Department" means the department of health. (B) "Director" means the director of health. (C) "Person" includes an individual, partnership, corporation, or association. (D) "Hazardous substance" means any substance or mixture of substances which is toxic, corrosive, an irritant, strong sensitizer, flammable, or which generates pressure through decomposition, heat, or other means, if such substance or mixtur...

...The following acts and the causing thereof are hereby prohibited: (A) The sale or delivery for sale of any misbranded package of a hazardous substance; (B) The alteration, mutilation, destruction, obliteration, or removal of the whole or any part of the label of, or the doing of any other act with respect to a hazardous substance, if such act is done while the substance is held for sale and which results in the haz...

...The director of health shall: (A) Adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for the efficient enforcement of section 3716.02 of the Revised Code; (B) Conduct examinations, inspections, and investigations for the purpose of establishing such regulations, through such officers of the department of health or the boards of health, as the director delegates; (C) Designate officers and employ...

...(A) Whenever the director of health finds or has probable cause to believe that any hazardous substance is misbranded as defined in division (N) of section 3716.01 of the Revised Code, he shall, unless he finds that the article is so misbranded as to constitute a serious danger to the public health, give the manufacturer or distributor, whose name appears on the label, written notice of the suspected violation and an...

...adequate remedy at law, the director of health is hereby authorized to apply to the court of common pleas wherein any of the provisions of section 3716.02 are being violated for a temporary or permanent injunction restraining any person from such violation.

...The director of health may cause to be published from time to time reports summarizing any judgments, decrees, or court orders which have been rendered under sections 3716.01 to 3716.07, inclusive, and 3716.99 of the Revised Code, including the nature of the charge and the disposition thereof. The director may also cause to be disseminated information regarding hazardous substances in situations involving, in the op...

...Before any violation of section 3716.02 of the Revised Code is reported by the director or board to any prosecuting attorney, city director of law, or village counsel for institution of a criminal proceeding, the person against whom such proceeding is contemplated shall be given appropriate notice and opportunity to present his views, either orally or in writing, with regard to the contemplated proceeding.

...No person shall be held to have violated any of the provisions of sections 3716.01 to 3716.07, inclusive, of the Revised Code, nor be subject to the penalties provided in section 3716.99 of the Revised Code, if such person sells or delivers for sale the hazardous substance which he has purchased for resale where the hazardous substance bears a label at the time of such purchase for resale by such person and such pers...

...No person shall do either of the following, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that any person may suffer physical harm or be seriously inconvenienced or annoyed thereby: (A) Place a pin, needle, razor blade, glass, laxative, drug of abuse, or other harmful or hazardous object or substance in any food or confection; (B) Furnish to any person any food or confection which has been adulterated in violation ...

...(A) Whoever violates section 3716.02 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree on a first offense. On each subsequent offense such person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree. (B) No person is subject to prosecution for a violation of division (A) of section 3716.02 of the Revised Code with respect to any hazardous substance shipped or delivered for shipment for export to any fore...

...lenished after each use. (M) "Board of health" means 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. (N) "Government entity" means this state, a political subdivision of this state, another state, or a political subdivision or other local government body of another state. (O) "Licensor" means one of the fo...

... the director's behalf, the director of health or a person the director designates to serve on the director's behalf, and twelve additional members appointed jointly by the director of agriculture and the director of health, as follows: (1) Three persons representing the interests of retail food establishments; (2) Three persons representing the interests of food service operations; (3) Four persons representing b...

... director of agriculture or director of health and making recommendations regarding those issues; (3) Mediating unresolved issues among state agencies about the interpretation of rules adopted under this chapter and making recommendations regarding the issues; (4) Reviewing all comments on and requests for interpretation of the Ohio uniform food safety code, as submitted by any holder of a license issued under this...

...tor of agriculture and the director of health have the exclusive power in this state to adopt rules regarding retail food establishments and food service operations. The rules adopted under this chapter shall be applied uniformly throughout this state. All rules adopted under this chapter shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. Subject to the approval of the joint committee on ag...

...director of agriculture and director of health shall jointly issue a letter of opinion when issuance of a letter of opinion is recommended by the retail food safety advisory council under section 3717.03 of the Revised Code. A letter of opinion shall be issued not later than sixty days after the date the recommendation is received from the council. Each letter of opinion shall provide a detailed interpretation of th...

...ctor of agriculture and the director of health shall adopt rules establishing standards for safe food handling and sanitation in retail food establishments and food service operations. The rules shall be compiled as the Ohio uniform food safety code, which shall be used by the licensors of retail food establishments and food service operations in ensuring the safe handling of food in this state. All scientific provis...

...y of foodborne illness. The director of health shall create within the department of health a position to be filled by an individual knowledgeable in food safety rules concerning food service operations and the epidemiology of foodborne illness. The individuals appointed to these positions shall serve as liaisons between the departments. They shall also serve as the departments' liaisons with other state agencies, b...

...ctor of agriculture and the director of health shall adopt rules establishing uniform methodologies for use in calculating the costs of licensing retail food establishments in the categories specified by the director of agriculture and the costs of licensing food service operations in the categories specified by the director of health. In adopting the rules, the director of agriculture and the director of healt...

...director of agriculture and director of health shall prescribe forms for use in calculating the licensing fees that may be charged under sections 3717.25 and 3717.45 of the Revised Code. Each licensor that charges licensing fees shall use the forms in calculating its costs according to the uniform methodologies established in rules adopted under section 3717.07 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) If the licensor is a board...

...irector of agriculture and director of health shall strive to increase consumer confidence in the state's food supply by promoting food safety awareness and education. The efforts of the director of agriculture and director of health shall be made, when appropriate and available, through partnerships with representatives of retail food establishments, representatives of food service operations, and representati...

...51 of the Revised Code, the director of health shall approve courses of study for certification in food protection as it pertains to retail food establishments and as it pertains to food service operations. Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the director shall certify individuals in food protection who successfully complete a course of study approved under this section and meet all other certificatio...

...(A) Each board of health shall be surveyed for the purpose of determining whether the board is qualified and has the capacity to administer and enforce this chapter and the rules adopted under it and to abide by the Ohio uniform food safety code. If the board licenses or proposes to license retail food establishments, the survey shall be conducted by the director of agriculture. If the board licenses or proposes to ...