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...state treasury. The state employment relations board shall deposit into the training, publications, and grants fund all moneys received from the following sources: (1) Payments received by the state employment relations board for copies of documents, rulebooks, and other publications; (2) Fees received from seminar participants; (3) Receipts from the sale of clearinghouse data; (4) Moneys received from grants...

... to 4121.29 of the Revised Code: (1) "Place of employment" means every place, whether indoors or out, or underground, and the premises appurtenant thereto, where either temporarily or permanently any industry, trade, or business is carried on, or where any process or operation, directly or indirectly related to any industry, trade, or business, is carried on and where any person is directly or indirectly employed by...

..., employment, or affiliations, can be classed as a representative of employers; one shall be an individual who, on account of the individual's previous vocation, employment, or affiliations, can be classed as a representative of employees; and one shall be an individual who, on account of the individual's previous vocation, employment, or affiliations, can be classed as a representative of the public. Each memb...

...The industrial commission operating fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of all moneys transferred to the fund pursuant to division (B) of section 4123.342 of the Revised Code. Revenues credited to the fund shall be used for those costs solely attributable to the activities of the commission.

... and medical examinations, tracking of claims, retrieval of information, and any other matter within the commission's jurisdiction, and shall provide and input information into the electronic data processing equipment as necessary to effect the success of the claims tracking system established pursuant to division (B)(14) of section 4121.121 of the Revised Code; (6) Exercise all administrative and nonadjudicatory po...

...of five employer representatives, four labor representatives, one representative from the Ohio association for justice, and two members of the public, each of a different political party, who are appointed by the governor. The nominating council shall make recommendations to the governor for the appointment of members to the industrial commission as provided in section 4121.02 of the Revised Code. (...

... shall be audited and paid as other similar expenses are audited and paid.

...The industrial commission shall have an official seal for the authentication of its orders and proceedings, upon which seal shall be engraved "The Industrial Commission of Ohio," and such other design as the commission prescribes. The courts in this state shall take judicial notice of such seal, and in all cases copies of orders, proceedings, or records in the office of the commission, certified by the executive dire...

...a separate record of its proceedings relative to claims coming before it for compensation for injured and the dependents of killed employees, which record shall contain its findings and the award in each such claim for compensation considered by it, and in all such claims the reasons for the allowance or rejection thereof shall be stated in said record.

...Subject to any applicable sections of sections 4101.01 to 4101.16 and 4121.01 to 4121.29 of the Revised Code, the bureau of workers' compensation may adopt its own rules of procedure and may change the same in its discretion.

...necessary expenses pursuant to section 1lass='keyword-hit'>lass='keyword-hit'>26.31 of the Revised Code while engaged in the performance of their duties as members and also shall receive an annual salary not to exceed sixty thousand dollars in total, payable on the following basis: (1) Except as provided in division (D)(2) of this section, a member shall receive two thousand five hundred dollars during a month in which the member attends one or more me...

...overnor shall fix the administrator's salary on the basis of the administrator's experience and the administrator's responsibilities and duties under this chapter and Chapters 4123., 4125., 4127., 4131., 4133., and 4167. of the Revised Code. The governor shall not appoint to the position of administrator any person who has, or whose spouse has, given a contribution to the campaign committee of the governor in an amou...

...the investigation or determination of claims, and finding of the administrator or the commission that such person is not efficient, impartial, or judicious, if supported by any evidence and not promoted by personal, political, racial, or religious discrimination shall be accepted as a fact justifying the action taken by the administrator or commission. (B) The administrator and the commission shall jointly adopt...

...necessary expenses pursuant to section 1lass='keyword-hit'>lass='keyword-hit'>26.31 of the Revised Code while engaged in the performance of their duties as members of the nominating committee. (F) The nominating committee shall: (1) Review and evaluate possible appointees for the board. In reviewing and evaluating possible appointees for the board, the nominating committee may accept comments from, cooperate with, and request information from any ...

...sibility for workers' compensation legislation on or before the first day of November following the year for which the estimate of unpaid liabilities was made; (4) Have an actuary or a person who provides actuarial services under the supervision of an actuary, at such time as the board determines, and at least once during the five-year period that commences on September 10, 2007, and once within each five-year perio...

...Except as provided in this chapter, no member of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors or employee of the bureau of workers' compensation shall have any direct or indirect interest in the gains or profits of any investment made by the administrator of workers' compensation or shall receive directly or indirectly any pay or emolument for the member's or employee's services. No member or person c...

...t might reasonably be expected in a similar transaction between similar parties who are not parties in interest. (2) The transaction is consistent with fiduciary duties under this chapter and Chapters 4123., 4127., and 4131. of the Revised Code. (C) A fiduciary shall not do any of the following: (1) Deal with the assets of the bureau in the fiduciary's own interest or for the fiduciary's own account; (2) In the f...

...The attorney general shall be the legal adviser of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors.

...t those problems and develop an action plan to correct those problems; (4) Monitor the implementation of any action plans created pursuant to division (A)(3) of this section; (5) Review all internal audit reports on a regular basis. (B) There is hereby created the workers' compensation actuarial committee consisting of at least three members. One member shall be the member of the board who is an actuary. The board...

...l: (A) Investigate, ascertain, and declare and prescribe what hours of labor, safety devices, safeguards, or other means or methods of protection are best adapted to render the employees of every employment and place of employment and frequenters of every place of employment safe, and to protect their welfare as required by law or lawful orders; (B) Ascertain and fix reasonable standards and prescribe, modify, an...

...ce agency in investigating reported violations of law relating to workers' compensation, and as such may apply for access to the computerized databases administered by the national crime information center or the law enforcement automated data system in Ohio and to other computerized databases administered for the purpose of making criminal justice information accessible to state and criminal justice agencies.

...ation with regard to any employment or place of employment, the administrator of workers' compensation may appoint, by an order in writing, any employee of the bureau of workers' compensation, any deputy, who is a citizen of the state, or any other competent person who is a resident of the state, as an agent whose duty shall be prescribed in the order. In the discharge of his duties the agent shall have every power ...

...f workers' compensation or any subpoena lawfully issued, or upon the refusal of any witness to testify to any matter regarding which he may be lawfully interrogated, the judge of the court of common pleas of any county in this state, on the application of the bureau, shall compel obedience by attachment proceedings for contempt as in the case of disobedience of the requirements of a subpoena issued from the court or ...

...Each witness who appears before the bureau of workers' compensation by its order shall receive for the witness's attendance the fees and mileage provided for under section 119.094 of the Revised Code, which shall be paid from the state insurance fund on the approval of the administrator of workers' compensation. No witnesses subpoenaed at the instance of the parties other than the bureau is entitled to compensa...

...n by any person that any employment or place of employment is not safe or is injurious to the welfare of any employee or frequenter, the bureau of workers' compensation shall proceed with or without notice to make an investigation as is necessary to determine the matter complained of. (B) After such hearing as is necessary, the bureau may enter any necessary order relative thereto to render the employment or place o...