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...(A) The director of agriculture may propose to require corrective actions and assess a civil penalty against an owner or operator of a concentrated animal feeding facility if the director or the director's authorized representative determines that the owner or operator is not in compliance with section 903.02 or 903.03 or division (A) of section 903.07 of the Revised Code, the terms and conditions of a permit to inst...

...(A) Except as provided in division (F) of this section, no owner, keeper, or harborer of any dog shall fail at any time to do either of the following: (1) Keep the dog physically confined or restrained upon the premises of the owner, keeper, or harborer by a leash, tether, adequate fence, supervision, or secure enclosure to prevent escape; (2) Keep the dog under the reasonable control of some person. A violatio...

...n 120.01 of the Revised Code; (d) The homeland security advisory council under division (E) of section 5502.011 of the Revised Code; (e) The unemployment compensation review commission under section 4141.06 of the Revised Code. (B) "Abolish" means to repeal the statutes creating and empowering an agency, remove its personnel, and transfer its records to the department of administrative services pursuant to divi...

...(A) As used in this section, "felony" means any of the following: (1) An offense committed in this state that is a felony under the law of this state; (2) An offense committed in a state other than this state, or under the law of the United States, that, if committed in this state, would be a felony under the law of this state. (B) The superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation shall...

...(A) The state public defender shall serve at the pleasure of the Ohio public defender commission and shall be an attorney with a minimum of four years of experience in the practice of law and be admitted to the practice of law in this state at least one year prior to appointment. (B) The state public defender shall do all of the following: (1) Maintain a central office in Columbus. The central office shall be p...

..., civil service townships, cities, city health districts, general health districts, and city school districts of the state, holding a position under this chapter, shall be during good behavior and efficient service. No officer or employee shall be reduced in pay or position, fined, suspended, or removed, or have the officer's or employee's longevity reduced or eliminated, except as provided in section 124.32 of the R...

...de any faster timetable for payments to health care providers contained in sections 4121.44 and 4123.512 of the Revised Code. For purposes of this division, a "proper invoice" includes the claimant's name, claim number and date of injury, employer's name, the provider's name and address, the provider's assigned payee number, a description of the equipment, materials, goods, supplies, or services provided by the pr...

...(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, the director of natural resources may designate an employee of the department of natural resources as a natural resources law enforcement staff officer. Such an officer may do any or all of the following: (1) Coordinate the law enforcement activities, training, and policies of the department; (2) Serve as the department's liaison with other law enforcement agencies and j...

...(A) As used in this section, "felony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) The director of natural resources shall not appoint a person as a natural resources officer under section 1501.24 of the Revised Code on a permanent or temporary basis or for a probationary term if the person previously has been convicted of or has pleaded guilty to a felony. (2)(a) The director shall termin...

...inent and substantial threat to public health or safety or to miners' health or safety and having been unable to contact the chief of the division of oil and gas resources management to request an order of suspension under section 1509.06 of the Revised Code. Before issuing a suspension order for that purpose, the chief of the division of mineral resources management shall notify the owner in a manner that in ...

...(A) As used in this section, "felony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) The chief of the division of wildlife shall not designate a person as a game protector on a permanent basis, on a temporary basis, for a probationary term, or on other than a permanent basis if the person previously has been convicted of or has pleaded guilty to a felony. (2)(a) The chief of the division of ...

...(A) As used in this section, "felony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B) The employees that the board of park commissioners designates for that purpose may exercise all the powers of police officers within and adjacent to the lands under the jurisdiction and control of the board or when acting as authorized by section 1545.131 or 1545.132 of the Revised Code. Before exercising the p...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Qualified nonprofit corporation" means a nonprofit corporation that is established under this chapter and to which all of the following apply: (a) The nonprofit corporation is a tax-exempt charitable organization; (b) The nonprofit corporation has other organizations as members, and at least twenty of its members are tax-exempt charitable organizations; (c) The nonprofit corporat...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Political subdivision" means a county, municipal corporation, or township. (2) "Private college or university" means a college or university that has all of the following characteristics: (a) It is not owned or controlled by the state or any political subdivision of the state. (b) It provides a program of education in residence leading to a baccalaureate degree or provides a prog...

...A court of this state may stay proceedings under sections 2329.90 to 2329.94 of the Revised Code to recognize and enforce a foreign country judgment if the defendant satisfies the court that an appeal is pending or that he is entitled and intends to appeal the foreign country judgment. The stay may be granted only until the appeal has been determined or until the expiration of a time period sufficient to enable the d...

...If a supersedeas bond has been executed and filed and the surety is one other than a surety company, the clerk of the court with which the bond has been filed, upon request, shall issue a certificate that sets forth the fact that the bond has been filed and that states the style and number of the appeal, the amount of the bond, and the sureties on it. Such a certificate may be filed in the office of the county ...

...If the interest of a party is distinct from that of all others in an action or proceeding, and the party desires to appeal his part of it, the appeal shall be so allowed by the court, and any supersedeas bond shall be fixed accordingly. The court shall make such order as to the papers, pleadings, and other documents of the action or proceeding, or copies of them, and shall make such other orders, as it considers appr...

...(A) The hearing of an appeal taken in relation to a final order, adjudication, or decision covered by division (A) of section 2506.01 of the Revised Code shall proceed as in the trial of a civil action, but the court shall be confined to the transcript filed under section 2506.02 of the Revised Code unless it appears, on the face of that transcript or by affidavit filed by the appellant, that one of the following ...

...(A) The hearing of an appeal taken under section 2506.05 of the Revised Code shall proceed as in the trial of a civil action, but the court shall be confined to the transcript as filed under section 2506.06 of the Revised Code unless it appears on the face of that transcript or by affidavit filed by the appellant that one or more of the following applies: (1) The transcript does not contain a report of all evidence ...

...(A) Any aggrieved person in any trial, hearing, or proceeding in or before any court, department, officer, agency, regulatory body, or other authority of this state or of a political subdivision of this state, other than a grand jury, may request the involved court, department, officer, agency, body, or authority, by motion, to suppress the contents, or evidence derived from the contents, of a wire, oral, or electron...

...If no appeal is filed, if leave to file an appeal or certification of a case is denied, if the judgment of the trial court is affirmed on appeal, or if post-conviction relief under section 2953.21 of the Revised Code is denied, the trial court or magistrate shall carry into execution the sentence or judgment which had been pronounced against the defendant.

...(A) If an inmate commences a civil action or appeal against a government entity or employee and if the inmate's claim in the civil action or the inmate's claim in the civil action that is being appealed is subject to the grievance system for the state correctional institution, jail, workhouse, or violation sanction center in which the inmate is confined, the inmate shall file both of the following with the court: (1...

...(A) As used in this section, "felony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) In the exercise of its authority under division (Y) of section 306.35 of the Revised Code, a regional transit authority shall not employ a person as a regional transit authority police officer on a permanent basis, on a temporary basis, for a probationary term, or on other than a permanent basis if the person...

...A person aggrieved by the decision of the board of county commissioners may appeal to the court of common pleas, as provided by and under the authority of Chapter 2506. of the Revised Code. The court shall advance such appeal when perfected for immediate trial. Where a board of county commissioners has adopted administrative regulations pursuant to various enabling sections of the Revised Code, such regulations may ...

...Except as otherwise provided in division (G) of this section, in all school districts wherein the provisions of Chapter 124. of the Revised Code do not apply, the following employment contract system shall control for employees whose contracts of employment are not otherwise provided by law: (A) Newly hired regular nonteaching school employees, including regular hourly rate and per diem employees, shall enter into...

...results; (c) Notify the department of health of the screening results for each newborn or infant screened. (2) A hearing screening conducted under this section shall be conducted under the direction of an audiologist, physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner or in collaboration with a physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified ...

...The department of health shall prepare and distribute to all hospitals and freestanding birthing centers required to provide hearing screenings under the program established under section 3701.504 of the Revised Code and each board of health, information describing factors or conditions of hearing loss and the effect of such a loss on an infant or child's language development, and information on the importance of he...

...(A) The director of health shall adopt rules governing the statewide hearing screening, tracking, and early intervention program established under section 3701.504 of the Revised Code, including rules that do all of the following: (1) Specify how hospitals and freestanding birthing centers are to comply with the requirements of section 3701.505 of the Revised Code, including methods to be used for hearing screenin...

...(A) The department of health shall develop a mechanism to analyze and interpret the hearing screening information to be reported under division (B) of this section. The department shall notify all hospitals and freestanding birthing centers subject to the reporting requirements of the date the department anticipates that the mechanism will be complete. After the mechanism is complete, the department shall notify each...

...nd practices. (D)(1) The director of health shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing standards and procedures for the screening required by this section, including all of the following: (a) Designating the person or persons responsible for causing the screening to be performed; (b) Specifying screening equipment and methods; (c) Identifying when the screening shou...

...Any inflammation, swelling, or redness in either one or both eyes of any infant, either apart from or together with any unnatural discharge from the eyes of such infant, independent of the nature of the infection, if any, occurring any time within two weeks after the birth of such infant, shall be known as "inflammation of the eyes of the newborn." Any inflammation of the conjunctiva or cornea, either apart from or t...

...None of the funds appropriated to administer the programs authorized by sections 3701.501 and 3701.502 of the Revised Code shall be used to counsel or refer for abortion.

...report such facts, as the department of health shall direct, to the health commissioner of the city or general health district within which such person may reside.

...The health commissioner of a city or general health district shall: (A) Investigate each case of inflammation of eyes of the newborn or gonorrheal ophthalmia as filed with the health commissioner and any other such case that comes to the health commissioner's attention; (B) Report all cases of inflammation of the eyes of the newborn or gonorrheal ophthalmia, and the result of all such investigations, as the depar...

...The department of health shall: (A) Enforce sections 3701.51 to 3701.55 of the Revised Code; (B) Promulgate rules as necessary for the purpose of those sections and as the director of health deems necessary for the further and proper guidance of health commissioners; (C) Provide for the gratuitous distribution of a scientific prophylactic for inflammation of the eyes of the newborn, together with directions for it...

...Every physician, certified nurse-midwife, or other person in attendance at childbirth shall, immediately after the birth, use in the eyes of the newborn child some prophylactic against inflammation of the eyes of such child, and shall make a record on the birth certificate of the prophylactic used.

...Boards of health of a general or city health district, health authorities and officials, officers of state institutions, police officers, sheriffs, constables, and other officers and employees of the state or any county, city, or township, shall enforce quarantine and isolation orders, and the rules the department of health adopts.

...s and proceedings by the department of health for the violation of sections 3701.01 to 3701.56, 3705.01 to 3705.29, 3707.06, 3709.01 to 3709.04, 3709.07 to 3709.11, 3709.13, 3709.17, 3709.18, and 3709.21 to 3709.36 of the Revised Code, or for the violation of any of the orders or rules of the department, shall be instituted by the director of health. Except as provided in division (C) of section 3701.571 of th...

...(A) The director of health shall adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that establish a graduated system of fines based on the scope and severity of violations and the history of compliance, not to exceed seven hundred fifty dollars per incident, and in an adjudication under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, may impose a fine against any person who violates division (C) of section 3701.23, division...

...The prosecuting attorney shall prosecute all violations of sections 3701.51 to 3701.55 and 3705.01 to 3705.29 of the Revised Code.

...evised Code. (B) Any of the following health care professionals who attends a pregnant woman for conditions relating to pregnancy before the end of the twentieth week of pregnancy and who has reason to believe that the woman is using or has used a controlled substance in a manner that may place the woman's fetus in jeopardy shall encourage the woman to enroll in a drug treatment program offered by a provider of add...

...Every hospital agency, as defined in section 140.01 of the Revised Code, may offer a uterine cytologic examination for cancer to every female in-patient twenty-one years of age or over unless contrary orders are given by the attending physician or unless the examination has been performed within the preceding year. Any female in-patient may refuse the examination. If the examination is offered, the hospital agency sh...

... of the Revised Code. The director of health shall distribute the contributed funds to the Ohio breast and cervical cancer project administered under section 3701.144 of the Revised Code. The contributed funds shall be used specifically for the provision of breast and cervical cancer screening, diagnostic, and outreach services to uninsured and under-insured women who meet the eligibility requirements specified in ...

...f the Revised Code. The department of health shall distribute all funds contributed under this section to an eligible nonprofit corporation that will use the contributions to grant the wishes of individuals who are under the age of eighteen, are residents of this state, and have been diagnosed with a life-threatening medical condition. Not later than six months after September 29, 2015, the department shall develop...

...cian assistant. (B) The department of health shall establish a grant program to address the provision of prenatal health care services to pregnant women on a group basis. The aim of the program is to increase the number of pregnant women who begin prenatal care early in their pregnancies and to reduce the number of infants born preterm. (C)(1) An entity seeking to participate in the grant program shall apply to t...

...newborn care nursery; (5) A maternity home licensed under Chapter 3711. of the Revised Code; (6) A freestanding birthing center licensed under section 3702.30 of the Revised Code.

...(A) The director of health shall establish guidelines for a state-level review of deaths of children under eighteen years of age who, at the time of death, were residents of this state. (B) The purpose of a review conducted pursuant to guidelines adopted under this section is to decrease the incidence of preventable child deaths by doing all of the following: (1) Promoting cooperation, collaboration, and communicat...

...th is being reviewed by the director of health pursuant to guidelines established under section 3701.70 of the Revised Code, on the request of the director, shall submit to the director a summary sheet of information. (a) With respect to a request made to a health care entity, the summary sheet shall contain only information available and reasonably drawn from the child's medical record created by the health care en...

...ocuments, or reports to the director of health pursuant to guidelines established under section 3701.70 of the Revised Code is immune from civil liability for injury, death, or loss to person or property that otherwise might be incurred or imposed as a result of providing the information, document, or reports to the director. (B) Each person participating in a review conducted pursuant to guidelines established unde...

... or report presented to the director of health pursuant to guidelines established under section 3701.70 of the Revised Code, all statements made by persons participating in a review conducted pursuant to those guidelines, and all work products of the director are confidential and shall be used by the director only in the exercise of the proper functions of the department of health. (B) The director may disclose the ...