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...A person, firm, or corporation may file a petition in the court of common pleas of the county in which a benevolent institution of the department of behavioral health is located, in which petition the desire to erect or carry on at a less distance than that prescribed in section 3767.19 of the Revised Code shall be set forth, the business prohibited, the precise point of its establishment, and the reasons and circums...

...(A) As used in this section, "felony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Subject to division (C) of this section, upon the recommendation of the director of behavioral health, the managing officer of an institution under the jurisdiction of the department of behavioral health may designate one or more employees to be special police officers of the department. The special police ...

...epare, and may amend from time to time, classifications for those physician specialists, and they shall receive a salary fixed pursuant to section 124.15 or 124.152 of the Revised Code. The director may employ and classify physicians in the department as physician specialists, within the classifications and pay ranges fixed pursuant to section 124.15 or 124.152 of the Revised Code. Any physician employed in the de...

...The attorney general shall attend to all claims instituted on behalf of or against the department of behavioral health or any institution under the jurisdiction of the department and the managing officer thereof, except such institutions as are privately owned or operated under a license from the department of behavioral health, and shall represent the public hospital in proceedings under section 5122.15 of the Revis...

...(A) The director of behavioral health is the chief executive and appointing authority of the department of behavioral health. The director may organize the department for its efficient operation, including creating divisions or offices as necessary. The director may establish procedures for the governance of the department, conduct of its employees and officers, performance of its business, and custody, use, and pres...

...(A) The director of behavioral health shall appoint a medical director who is eligible or certified by the American board of psychiatry and neurology or the American osteopathic board of neurology and psychiatry, and has at least five years of clinical and two years of administrative experience. The medical director shall also have certification or substantial training and experience in the field of addiction medicin...

...(A) The department of behavioral health shall maintain, operate, manage, and govern state institutions and other services for the care and treatment of persons with mental illnesses. (B)(1) The department of behavioral health may, with the approval of the governor, designate the name and purpose of any institutions under its jurisdiction and may change, with the approval of the governor, the designation and name w...

...In addition to the powers and duties expressly conferred on the department of behavioral health, the department may take any other action it considers necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter and Chapters 340., 2919., 2945., and 5122. of the Revised Code. Actions authorized by this section include the authority to adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that may be necessary to carry out t...

...The department of behavioral health may make such investigations as are necessary in the performance of its duties and to that end the director of behavioral health shall have the same power as a judge of a county court to administer oaths and to enforce the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books or papers. The department shall keep a record of such investigations stating the time, place...

...The department of behavioral health, in conjunction with the department of job and family services, shall develop a joint state plan to improve the accessibility and timeliness of alcohol and drug addiction services for individuals identified by a public children services agency as in need of those services. The plan shall address the fact that Ohio works first participants may be among the persons receiving services...

...(A) The department of behavioral health, in accordance with division (B) of this section, shall give priority to developing, and promptly shall develop, with available public and private resources a program that does all of the following: (1) Provides a manner of identifying the aggregate number of pregnant women in this state who are addicted to a drug of abuse; (2) Provides for an effective means of interventio...

...The department of behavioral health shall establish and administer a statewide program to prevent youth use of cannabis. The program shall do the following: (A) Use a harm reduction approach; (B) Include practices aimed at the prevention or reduction of substance use, substance abuse, substance dependence, and substance use disorders; (C) Use other evidence-based approaches selected by the department.

... certified or permanent position in the classified service within the department of behavioral health to a position in the unclassified service within the department. A person appointed pursuant to this section to a position in the unclassified service shall retain the right to resume the position and status held by the person in the classified service immediately prior to the person's appointment to the position in ...

...person to fill a position in either the classified or unclassified service of the department of behavioral health if the person has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation of the following: (1) Any felony contained in the Revised Code, if the felony bears a direct and substantial relationship to the position being filled; (2) Any crime contained in the Revised Code constituting a misdemeanor of the fi...

...The department of behavioral health may require any of its employees and each officer and employee of every institution under its control who may be charged with custody or control of any money or property belonging to the state or who is required to give bond, to give a surety company bond, properly conditioned, in a sum to be fixed by the department which when approved by the department, shall be filed in the offic...

...The department of behavioral health may provide educational grants or tuition reimbursements to upgrade the education, training, and professional achievement of its employees, whenever it determines that provision of such grants or reimbursements is essential to the achievement of its goals. The department may enter into agreements with its employees for the purposes of this section. The agreements may require, as a ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Advanced practice registered nurse" has the same meaning as in section 4723.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Clinician" means any of the following: (a) An advanced practice registered nurse; (b) A physician; (c) A physician assistant. (3) "Physician" means an individual authorized under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic me...

...(A) The director of behavioral health or the managing officer of an institution of the department may enter into an agreement with boards of trustees or boards of directors of one or more institutions of higher education or hospitals licensed pursuant to section 5119.33 of the Revised Code to establish, manage, and conduct collaborative training efforts for students enrolled in courses of studies for occupations or p...

...The courses of study for the instruction and training of all persons in institutions under the control of the department of behavioral health shall be subject to the approval of the superintendent of public instruction. All teachers employed in institutions under the control of the department of behavioral health shall possess such educator licenses or have such qualifications and approval as the superintendent of...

...(A) As used in this section, "state correctional institution" has the same meaning as in section 2967.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The department of behavioral health shall develop a program that is designed to educate and train the employees of each state correctional institution, the employees of each department of youth services institution, and other persons associated by contract or otherwise with each state c...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Community-based correctional facility" has the same meaning as in section 2929.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Drug used in medication-assisted treatment" means a drug approved by the United States food and drug administration for use in medication-assisted treatment, regardless of the method the drug is administered or the form in which it is dispensed, including an oral drug, an...

...(A) As used in this section, "overdose reversal drug" has the same meaning as in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Subject to available funds, the department of behavioral health shall provide overdose reversal drugs to hospitals to be provided to patients as described in section 3727.81 of the Revised Code. (C) The department of behavioral health, in coordination with the department of health, shall estab...

...(A) As used in this section: "Electroencephalogram (EEG) combined transcranial magnetic stimulation" means treatment in which transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) frequency pulses are tuned to the patient's physiology and biometric data. "First responder" has the meaning defined in section 2903.01 of the Revised Code. "Law enforcement officer" has the meaning defined in section 9.69 of the Revised Code. ...

... to the state. Money received from such sales, leases, or exchanges shall be credited to the department of behavioral health trust fund, created in section 5119.46 of the Revised Code. (D) Any instrument by which real property is acquired pursuant to this section shall identify the agency of the state that has the use and benefit of the real property as specified in section 5301.012 of the Revised Code.

...(A) The department of behavioral health shall: (1) To the extent the department has available resources and in consultation with boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, support the community-based continuum of care that the boards are required by section 340.032 of the Revised Code to establish. The department shall provide the support on a district or multi-district basis. The department sha...